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Trump just canceled the swamp’s credit card. Good

Using pocket rescissions to cancel $1 billion in unspent NGO spending asserts executive authority and ends federal spending waste.

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What Supreme Court Said About Rare Power Trump Defies Congress WithThe Trump administration is blocking $810 million of congressionally approved government spending using a controversial legal tactic.

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