{"id":12729,"date":"2025-08-29T13:32:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/white-house-declares-4-9b-in-foreign-aid-unilaterally-canceled-in-end-run-around-congress-funding-power\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:32:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:32:02","slug":"white-house-declares-4-9b-in-foreign-aid-unilaterally-canceled-in-end-run-around-congress-funding-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/white-house-declares-4-9b-in-foreign-aid-unilaterally-canceled-in-end-run-around-congress-funding-power\/","title":{"rendered":"White House declares $4.9B in foreign aid unilaterally canceled in end-run around Congress&#8217; funding power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The White House budget office said Friday morning that President Donald Trump has canceled $4.9 billion in foreign aid by using a so-called pocket rescission \u2014 furthering the administration&#8217;s assault on Congress&#8217; funding prerogatives. <\/p>\n<p>The move raises tensions on Capitol Hill as lawmakers face an Oct. 1 deadline to avoid a government shutdown. Many lawmakers from both parties, as well as Congress&#8217; top watchdog, view the maneuver as an illegal end-run around their &#8220;power of the purse.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration boldly embraced the strategy on Friday. &#8220;Congress can choose to vote to rescind or continue the funds \u2014 it doesn\u2019t matter,&#8221; an official from the White House budget office said in a statement. &#8220;This approach is rare but not unprecedented.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The White House is allowed to send Congress a clawbacks request and then withhold the cash for 45 days while lawmakers consider whether to approve, reject or ignore the proposal. Because there are less than 45 days left before the end of the fiscal year, Trump\u2019s top budget officials \u2014 led by budget chief Russ Vought \u2014 argue that they can employ the so-called pocket rescission to withhold the funding until it lapses at month\u2019s end, ensuring its cancellation regardless of what Congress decides.<\/p>\n<p>The pocket rescission request was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/28\/us-news\/trump-scraps-5b-in-foreign-aid-in-rare-pocket-rescission\/\" target=\"_blank\">first reported by the New York Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Meredith Lee Hill contributed to this report. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House budget office said Friday morning that President Donald Trump has canceled $4.9 billion in foreign aid by using a so-called pocket rescission \u2014 furthering the administration&#8217;s assault on Congress&#8217; funding prerogatives. The move raises tensions on Capitol Hill as lawmakers face an Oct. 1 deadline to avoid a government shutdown. Many lawmakers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}