GAO reasserts pocket rescissions’ illegality after Trump uses tactic to cancel nearly $1B

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The Government Accountability Office has again said President Trump’s use of a pocket rescission to cancel $810 million in federal funding was unlawful. Its attorney cited the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 in outlining the legal basis for that conclusion.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reasserted on Tuesday that President Trump’s use of a “pocket rescission” to cancel $810 million in federal funding was unlawful.  The letter by the government watchdog’s lead attorney, Edda Emmanuelli Perez, outlined under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (ICA), “the rescission proposals contained in the President’s September 25,…