During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump pledged to ‘use the president’s long-recognized Impoundment Power to squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy for massive savings’ and to ‘restore executive branch impoundment authority.’ This represented an explicit pre-election commitment to revive a practice that the Supreme Court had unanimously foreclosed and that Congress had legislatively prohibited through the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.
Trump Campaigns on Restoring Impoundment Authority