Short version reviewing Trump's "Don't Fear" propaganda. Woman explains to Trump's (typically teenager) style incipient shame-attack: "Let me guess, that's Biden's fault too?"

6/ Trump's "Don't Fear" propaganda: sterile, changeless, unskilled, lacking in empathy, incapable of receiving or giving feedback in any useful manner. And verbally incompetent: #RussVought has a brain, but his #PocketRescissions may be turned to chop suey by any journactivist of even moderate skill

Important news for how MAGA will fund fascism.

Some basics from me and others on #PocketRescissions:
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2/ Next step for #Project2025 architect Russ Vought after wrestling with courts on pocket rescissions is assuredly trying to legalize extreme impoundments: www.gao.gov/blog/what-im...

Search hashtag #PocketRescissions for much more; this URL might / might not work for that: bsky.app/search?q=%23...

Judge rules White House 'pocket rescission' gambit is illegal The Trump administration has appealed the decision.

🧵/ How MAGA plans to fund fascism:

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ruled Sept. 3: Trump and #OMB Vought #PocketRescissions to cancel billions in foreign aid sans Congress is illegal. Trump admin appealing; here's underlying case: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69628...

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👇🇺🇸"Republicans dismayed by Trump’s decision to use pocket rescission" #Republicans #GOPChaos
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#PocketRescissions leading to impoundments. Important thread embedded.

👇🇺🇸"Trump tosses grenade into GOP-Dem shutdown battle with pocket rescissions" #Trump #Congress #PocketRescissions

I’m glad you included the hashtag—for some reason the link isn’t working for me (just takes me to the search page). Clicking on the hashtag brought your #PocketRescissions posts up, though.

I've been writing lengthy piece, with high-up quotes & excerpts from recent book on #OMB, on MAGA wanting this to lead to impoundments & swelling #ICE; editors lmk or review inboxes.

Trump, Vought deploying this big deal on slow news Friday.

My posts on #PocketRescissions: bsky.app/search?q=%23...

Fear of Trump funding ‘wrench’ escalates as Congress faces shutdown cliff The White House is now within the window of attempting a contentious “pocket rescission” to cancel federal cash no matter what Congress says.

22/ Trump's summer BBB funds him to grotesquely swell ICE (arguably a #reorg by budget rather than by Article I "necessary and proper"...is that legal?), & if he needs more cash--fascism is very expensive--Vought's #OMB is now in window to deploy #PocketRescissions: www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Image of textbook table shows major political issues, constitutional issues, court decisions of the Reagan era. INS v. Chadha (1983) is highlighted.

6/ Vought claims the Supreme Court case INS v. Chadha (1983) gave lawmakers an opportunity to fix #PocketRescissions and they failed to fix it, so now he's going to use the tool.

Imagine if lawmakers now issued a resolution clarifying that the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 bans pocket rescissions

White House floats new funding trick — and GOP lawmakers grimace The Republicans in charge of funding the government don't like what they're hearing from President Donald Trump's budget chief.

Senate Appropriations Chair #SusanCollins (R-Maine) thinks " #PocketRescissions are illegal [...] and contradict the will of Congress and the constitutional authority of Congress to appropriate funds."

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But pocket rescissions can't be stopped by Congress without more

Impoundment Control Act Learn about the Impoundment Control Act, which permits the President to “impound” appropriated funds, in certain circumstances.

Government Accountability Office (GAO), a watchdog in the legislative branch, has repeatedly said #PocketRescissions are illegal. Just 1 example: "The Impoundment Control Act does not permit the withholding of funds proposed for rescission through their expiration date": www.gao.gov/legal/approp....

"One option the budget director is increasingly vocalizing: #PocketRescissions. That’s when the White House sends a rescissions request toward the end of the fiscal year and lets the funds expire."

via @politico.com