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
While the Biden Administration presented the Inflation Reduction Act as a means of containing the record inflation destroying household incomes, the legislation was in truth a legislative vehicle for enacting large swaths of the radical Green New Deal.| The Center for Renewing America
If leadership succeeds in combining annual spending caps and the debt limit in a single bill for the second year in a row, they can argue the precedent is the new normal. Leadership would usurp even more authority from individual legislators, diminishing our republican form of government.| The Center for Renewing America