The muscle memory among staff and lawmakers around using this procedure is all but gone on Capitol Hill, but it has a history of success that could provide a model for Republicans moving forward. The process under the ICA largely fell into disuse after Bill Clinton’s presidency, but Ronald Reagan was the most frequent user of it. In the 1981 fiscal year, Congress passed 101 of Reagan’s 133 proposed rescissions, cutting about $11 billion in appropriations. “As a percentage of federal outlays, that would be like cutting over $100 billion today,” National Review pointed out in March.
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Dominic Pino
Congress is absolutely right to take up the White House’s request for rescinding spending based on the findings from DOGE.
Congress is absolutely right to take up the White House’s request for rescinding spending based on the findings from DOGE. In my latest article for the Washington Post, I argue why Republicans shouldn’t stop with just this one rescissions package.
Here’s a slice:
While some other actions of the Trump administration have been based on expansive theories of executive power (to say the least), which often leaves them open to challenges in court, a rescissions package is squarely within the bounds of the law and the Constitution. The legislative branch appropriates money, and then the executive branch spends it. If the executive branch thinks the appropriation was too high, or it thinks it was unnecessary, the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 says it can explain its reasoning to Congress and request that the funding be rescinded. . . .
You can read the whole thing here.