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🧵Presidents have impounded funds that Congress appropriated with mandatory spending language.In fact, in 1896, Attorney General Harmon issued opinion concluding Presidents don’t have to spend all funds, even if appropriation contains mandatory language. (highlighted below from CRA paper on history of impoundments, linked below in this thread).Many Presidents going back to Founding and especially in 20th C. (FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson) impounded significant funds. It’s time for the President to reassert this authority to help stop the spending madness.https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1859355446420635782.html