#davidsuper #Congress #spendingpower #Courts #judiciary #Trump

"Now, the federal government is systematically refusing to make payments not because of good-faith disputes about contractual terms or vendors’ compliance but because the Administration is asserting an aggressive new theory about the Separation of Powers. . . [that] the President is free at any time to reformulate the interests of the United States notwithstanding contractual terms or duly enacted statutes."
https://balkin.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-power-of-purse-iv-redistributing.html

#davidsuper #spendingpower #Congress #executivepower #Trump #OMB

"More broadly, President Trump’s seizure of much of Congress’s Power of the Purse has dramatically reduced Congress’s importance and hence the importance of agencies’ liaison roles.  Russell Vought has made clear to agencies that money comes from OMB and that it is OMB, not Congress, that agencies must appease."

https://balkin.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-power-of-purse-iii-shifts-in-power.html