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Rep. Andy Harris: "A continuing resolution doesn't increase spending, but it also gives the administration the ability to tweak funding. Those Biden-era programs that aren't very favorable like USAID obviously are subject to rescission." (Yeah, that's the whole problem!)

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On CNN, Russ Vought briefly mentioned an important but rarely used statutory process provided to a president, known as a “pocket” rescission. Once you understand what a pocket rescission is, you’ll understand it as the smoothest path towards attaining the vast majority of DOGE cuts. Normally, when a rescission package is submitted to Congress, as one will likely be tomorrow, a president has the statutory authority to withhold those funds for 45 days (measured in days that Congress isn’t in recess. ) We should fully support that rescission package because if all or some of it fails, or Congress doesn’t act on the package within those 45 days, the package fails and we lose the ability to use the rescission process to attain those cuts later. On the other hand, a “pocket” rescission is a rescissions package submitted within 45 days of the end of the fiscal year. If a rescission package is submitted within that window, the statutory authority of a president to withhold those funds take us past September 30th, the end of the fiscal year. At that point, the budget authority to expend fy25 funds lapses. The rescission is therefore automatic. Once you understand this, it’s the the ideal strategy for attaining the DOGE cuts because it gives Congress the ability to affirm the process by voting in support of the rescission, but it also moves forward automatically. It’s a win-win. But it requires that the rescission packages be submitted after roughly August 18th. Demanding more DOGE cuts NOW, and urging movement on them now, jeopardizes the process. We should be asking for all future rescissions packages on DOGE cuts to wait until AFTER roughly August 18th.

Wade Miller

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