GAO reasserts pocket rescissions' illegality after Trump uses tactic to cancel nearly $1B
The Government Accountability Office has declared President Trump's use of a "pocket rescission" to cancel $810 million in federal funding to be unlawful under the Impoundment Control Act.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reasserted 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 (ICA) of 1974, “the rescission proposals contained in the President’s September 25, 2026,...
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