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Trump tosses grenade into GOP-Dem shutdown battle with pocket rescissions
(The Hill) President Trump’s new effort to cancel funding previously approved by Congress through “pocket rescissions” is setting up a political land mine for Congress as it races to avert a government shutdown by Sept. 30.
The so-called pocket rescission comes as Democrats had warned that efforts by the administration to unilaterally claw back money would seriously undermine the fragile bipartisanship required to fund the government.
And some Republicans are also sounding the alarm, questioning whether the move is legal and saying it undermines the will of Congress.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-tosses-grenade-gop-dem-100000714.html