Plot twist: Vought is no longer even bothering to ask Congress to sign off on this latest rescission. Big red flag for the NIH.
Plot twist: Vought is no longer even bothering to ask Congress to sign off on this latest rescission. Big red flag for the NIH.
Clearly designed to get SCOTUS to overturn the Impoundment Act, which I think they almost certainly will now.
The second order consequences of this are unfathomable. Any president could cut whatever they wanted. So much for the constitutionally defined separation of powers. Of course Supreme Court would figure out a carve out why a D president couldn’t do this, only Trump. Calvinball.