Biden said in a letter to Congress that he was reversing all 73
spending cuts that Trump had requested, which touched virtually every
cabinet-level agency as well as federal programs such as the National
Endowments of the Arts and Humanities.
Under the 1974 Budget and Impoundment Control Act, the president can
request that Congress rescind budget authority that it had previously
approved.
The cuts, known as rescissions, totaled $27.4 billion, according to a
Jan. 14 letter to Congress from the Trump White House. The proposed
cuts had come after Trump grew frustrated with some of the spending
included in a December spending bill.
“I will sign the Omnibus and Covid package with a strong message that
makes clear to Congress that wasteful items need to be removed,” Trump
said in a statement as he signed the bill into law in late December. “I
will send back to Congress a redlined version, item by item, accompanied
by the formal rescission request to Congress insisting that those funds
be removed from the bill.”
The proposed cuts would have also hit the legislative branch of the
federal government.
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