Executive Reforms of the DOD in the Spirit of the Goldwater–Nichols Act| The Center for Renewing America
Impoundment is constitutional and enjoys a long history of usage. Further, the restoration of impoundment—and the inherent understanding that appropriations are permissive ceilings and not mandatory floors—diminishes partisan political warfare and returns the federal government back to a healthier era where tension was vested more in separate branches of government and less in partisan differences and the courts.| The Center for Renewing America
If America’s national debt is to be brought to heel, inflation tamed, and deficits eliminated, the constitutional power of the Executive Branch to impound funds is a critical tool to accomplish this task.| The Center for Renewing America
For decades America’s legal system has applied radically different standards to ordinary Americans and left-leaning…| The Center for Renewing America
Since the Founding, it has been understood that Article II vests the President with authority to decline to spend the full amount of an appropriated fund.| The Center for Renewing America
Policy Brief in Brief: The US Military May Be Used to Secure the Border| The Center for Renewing America
Defenders of the Impoundment Control Act misunderstand the power of the purse, overread Supreme Court precedent, and fail to address unbroken Executive impoundment practice and congressional acquiescence.| The Center for Renewing America