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Anonymous ID: 53f7dc Dec. 28, 2020, 6:09 a.m. No.12208378   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8752

>>12208354

Title X of the Act, also known as the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, specifies that the President may request that Congress rescind appropriated funds. If both the Senate and the House of Representatives have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation. Congress is not required to vote on the request, and has ignored most Presidential requests. In response, some have called for a line item veto to strengthen the rescission power and force Congress to vote on the disputed funds.

 

Not sure why this letter to Congress is deemed "GOOD NEWS"…

Anonymous ID: 53f7dc Dec. 28, 2020, 6:22 a.m. No.12208471   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8473 >>8600

>>12208430

Navy E6 Mercury (Looking Glass), Call sign DRIPP66 departs Travis AFB.

 

The Boeing E-6 Mercury (formerly E-6 Hermes) is an airborne command post and communications relay based on the Boeing 707. The original E-6A manufactured by Boeing's defense division entered service with the United States Navy in July 1989, replacing the EC-130Q. This platform, now modified to the E-6B standard, conveys instructions from the National Command Authority to fleet ballistic missile submarines (see communication with submarines), a mission known as TACAMO ("Take Charge And Move Out"). The E-6B model deployed in October 1998 also has the ability to remotely control Minuteman ICBMs using the Airborne Launch Control System. The E-6B replaced Air Force EC-135Cs in the "Looking Glass" role, providing command and control of U.S. nuclear forces should ground-based control become inoperable. With production lasting until 1991, the E-6 was the final new derivative of the Boeing 707 to be built.

Anonymous ID: 53f7dc Dec. 28, 2020, 6:27 a.m. No.12208519   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Someone with more coffee in them please explain why this Impoundment Control Act invocation means anything, since it doesn't force Congress to do anything.

Anonymous ID: 53f7dc Dec. 28, 2020, 6:39 a.m. No.12208641   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8656 >>8752

Rescissions

 

Put simply, if the President wants to spend less money than Congress provided for a particular purpose, he or she must first secure a law providing Congressional approval to rescind the funding in question. The ICA requires that the President send a special message to Congress identifying the amount of the proposed rescission; the reasons for it; and the budgetary, economic, and programmatic effects of the rescission. Upon transmission of such special message, the President may withhold certain funding in the affected accounts for up to 45 legislative session days. If a law approving the rescission is not enacted within the 45 days, any withheld funds must be made available for obligation.

 

Sauce:

https://budget.house.gov/publications/report/impoundment-control-act-1974-what-it-why-does-it-matter

 

A 2018 Government Accountability Office legal opinion holds that if the President proposes a rescission, he or she must make the affected funds available to be prudently obligated before the funds expire, even if the 45-day clock is still running. This means, for example, that the President cannot strategically time a rescission request for late in the fiscal year and withhold the funding until it expires, thus achieving a rescission without Congressional approval.

Anonymous ID: 53f7dc Dec. 28, 2020, 7:02 a.m. No.12208860   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8878 >>8886

>>12208834

YES, They don't even have to vote. Pelosi can just refuse to bring it to the floor.

 

"Upon transmission of such special message, the President may withhold certain funding in the affected accounts for up to 45 legislative session days. If a law approving the rescission is not enacted within the 45 days, any withheld funds must be made available for obligation."

 

After 45 days, it happens anyway.