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Committee presses OMB on pocket rescissions, deferrals and statutory limits under ICA
Summary
Senators questioned whether the administration's rescissions plan and other OMB actions risked circumventing Congress’s appropriations authority, focusing on potential pocket rescissions, deferrals and the administration’s withholding of apportionment data.
A central thread of the Appropriations Committee hearing was whether the administration's rescissions package and related practices would erode Congress’s constitutional appropriations authority.
Vice Chair Patty Murray and others repeatedly warned that the special message could set a precedent for partisan rescissions that undo bipartisan appropriations granted by large, multipartisan packages. Murray said the committee should "reject this package outright" if it would allow rescissions to be used to rip up bipartisan agreements.
Several senators asked Director Russell Vought to commit that the administration would not pursue…
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