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Committee clashes over OMB impoundments, pocket rescissions and OMB inspector general amendment; IG bid fails
Summary
Members debated whether the executive's use of "pocket rescissions" and impoundments violates the Impoundment Control Act; an amendment to create an independent Office of Inspector General for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was rejected on a recorded vote.
A major focus of the markup was an extended and often heated debate over executive-branch authority to withhold or rescind funds that Congress has appropriated. Lawmakers repeatedly framed the issue as constitutional: whether the president and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) may unilaterally defer or cancel appropriated funds via pocket rescissions.
Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro and several Democrats said the administration's recent rescission actions were illegal and amounted to an unlawful bypass of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, which prescribes how the executive may ask Congress to rescind or defer funding. Rep. Hoyer argued…
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