The Biden administration on Wednesday unfroze $27.4 billion in government funding that former President Trump locked up before leaving office.
Last Thursday, Trump used a budgetary legal provision calling on Congress to rescind funds from 73 programs that were fully funded in December’s $2.3 trillion omnibus spending bill. Trump signed the bill into law but complained about many of its provisions.
The budget law allows the president to freeze relevant funds in the program for up to 45 days while Congress considers whether to accept or reject the rescission request to cancel out the programs’ funding.
Congressional Democrats had reacted in fury to Trump’s attempt to even briefly block the programs, which included funds for international COVID-19 vaccination efforts, environmental protection, arts and humanities programs, and a slew of foreign policy initiatives.
Read more at The Hill.
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Hey Joe! When am I getting the $1400.00 check you promised me?!
more waste! and who pays for all this? us? Americans were dupe. He has no concept of how business is run. He is no lunch bucket/scranton Joe. We had a great President who was cleaning up the waste and bloat in our bureaucracy. But he was chased out. Thank you for your great efforts in leaving us with this.
“which included funds for international COVID-19 vaccination efforts, environmental protection, arts and humanities programs, and a slew of foreign policy initiatives”
Need we say more…