{"id":1952546,"date":"2023-06-20T23:38:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T03:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-unveils-plan-to-squeeze-us-spending-cut-deficit\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T23:42:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T03:42:56","slug":"trump-unveils-plan-to-squeeze-us-spending-cut-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-unveils-plan-to-squeeze-us-spending-cut-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump reveals strategy to reduce US spending and slash deficit."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-unveils-plan-to-squeeze-us-spending-cut-deficit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1952546&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Trump Unveils Plan to Cut Waste and Crush the &#8220;Deep State&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Former president Donald Trump has unveiled a plan to \u201ccut waste, stop inflation, and crush the &#8220;Deep State&#8221; of entrenched bureaucrats,&#8221; his campaign said in a June 20 news release.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that, if elected to a second term in office, he would invoke his presidential power to delay or halt expenditures that he considers wasteful, despite congressional approvals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI will use the president\u2019s long-recognized impoundment power to squeeze the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/laid-bare-for-all-to-see-how-the-fbi-raid-exposes-deep-state-corruption\/\" title=\"\u2018Laid Bare For All To See\u2019: How The FBI Raid Exposes Deep State Corruption\">bloated federal bureaucracy<\/a> for massive savings,\u201d Trump said in the release, which included a video message from the former president. \u201cThis will be in the form of tax reductions for you. This will help quickly to stop inflation and slash the deficit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The latest announcement is part of the Trump campaign\u2019s effort to keep advancing his policy positions even while the former president faces historic state and federal indictments over his alleged misuse of documents.<\/p>\n<p>Now campaigning to become the nation\u2019s 47th president, Trump has posted more than two dozen policy-related videos under the title &#8220;Agenda 47,&#8221; including his position on impoundment.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is the current frontrunner for the Republican nomination. And, according to the RealClear Politics average, he holds a slight lead over the incumbent president and leading Democrat candidate, President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Biden is also under scrutiny for his handling of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ag-garland-to-make-statement-on-mar-a-lago-raid\/\" title=\"AG Garland to Make Statement on Mar-a-Lago Raid\">classified government documents<\/a>, and Republicans in Congress have been probing the Biden family\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-unveils-plan-to-squeeze-us-spending-cut-deficit\/\" title=\"Trump reveals strategy to reduce US spending and slash deficit.\">multimillion-dollar foreign business deals<\/a>. Biden\u2019s son, Hunter Biden, has admitted to federal charges involving taxes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5343214\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/06\/19\/id5343214-06192023-DSC09205-US-Capitol-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n    The U.S. Capitol in Washington on June 19, 2023. (Madalina Vasiliu\/The Epoch Times)<br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<h2>\u2018Wasteful\u2019 Spending<\/h2>\n<p>Although Trump was blamed for adding to the national deficit during his tenure, he also made cutbacks during his administration. He reduced the number of White House employees and limited how much time public employees could work for unions while drawing government pay.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the national debt has continued to climb. It recently reached an all-time high of $32 trillion, The Epoch Times previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>Trump blames Biden for wasting \u201ctrillions of taxpayer dollars\u201d after his presidency began in 2021, causing \u201cuncontrolled inflation that is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-kent-says-hell-run-again-in-2024\/\" title=\"Joe Kent Says He'll Run Again in 2024\">crushing working families<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReining in Biden\u2019s wasteful and unnecessary spending is vital to stopping inflation and rescuing our economy from ruin,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Presidents\u2019 power to curtail congressional spending took a hit after the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (CBA) took effect. That act \u201chandcuffed\u201d the presidential power to halt wasteful spending, Trump said, adding, \u201cThis is the only way we will ever return a balanced budget: Impoundment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump is touting the impoundment proposal even though he came under fire for using that power during his tenure as the nation\u2019s 45th president, from 2017-21.<\/p>\n<h2>Ukraine Funds<\/h2>\n<p>In 2019, Congress began an impeachment of Trump, partly for his decision to temporarily freeze $250 million in aid that Congress appropriated to help Ukraine defend itself. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nearly-500-million-in-afghanistan-costs-were-called-into-question-by-oversight-agency-audits\/\" title=\"Nearly 0 Million In Afghanistan Costs Were Called Into Question By Oversight Agency Audits\">government watchdog agency<\/a> later said it was improper for Trump to block the money. The funds were eventually released to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3206225\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/01\/16\/trump-impeachment-1200x821.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n    Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) holds up a copy of the Trump-Ukraine Impeachment inquiry report and a copy of the Constitution of the United States as the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary marks-up House Resolution 755, Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J. Trump, in the Longworth House Office Building in Washington on Dec. 12, 2019. (Olivier Douliery\/AFP via Getty Images)<br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<p>Now Trump declares: \u201cWhen I return to the White House, I will do everything I can to challenge the Impoundment Control Act in court, and, if necessary, get Congress to overturn it. We will overturn it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trump called impoundment \u201ca crucial tool with which to obliterate the Deep State, drain the swamp, and starve the warmongers \u2026 and the Globalists out of government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWith impoundment, we can simply choke off the money,\u201d Trump said, calling the policy \u201canti-inflation, anti-Swamp, anti-globalist\u2014and it\u2019s pro-growth, pro-taxpayer, pro-American, and pro-freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI alone can get that done. I will get it done and Make America Great Again,\u201d he said, repeating his well-known campaign slogan.<\/p>\n<h2>Impoundment As a Tool<\/h2>\n<p>Trump\u2019s release argues that, while the Constitution does grant Congress the authority to set a \u201cceiling\u201d on spending, Congress \u201cshould not set the floor,\u201d or minimum level of spending.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The CBA \u201cdramatically limited\u201d impoundment, Trump said. As a result, presidents have been forced \u201cto spend every penny of congressionally appropriated funds,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and his team argue that the Founding Fathers of the United States intended impoundment to be part of the \u201cchecks and balances\u201d baked into the American government structure.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Constitution, the president is empowered to \u201ctake Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.\u201d That phrase \u201chas historically been understood to mean that the president can impound funds when doing so allows him to enforce the law more effectively and efficiently,\u201d Trump\u2019s release says.<\/p>\n<p>But \u201cthe CBA placed crippling burdens on the use of impoundment authority and on the president\u2019s negotiating leverage with Congress over how taxpayer dollars are spent, leaving Congress with virtually unchecked budget authority,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis disaster of a law is clearly unconstitutional\u2014a blatant violation of the separation of powers,\u201d Trump commented in his video.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, wasteful spending has ballooned, Trump\u2019s release says, point<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign announced a strategy to tackle waste, inflation, and the &#8220;Deep State&#8221; of bureaucrats. 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