Lawfare Daily: Pocket Rescissions in Congress
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On today’s episode, Molly Reynolds, Contributing Editor at Lawfare and Senior Fellow at Brookings, sits down with Zach Price, Associate Professor of Law at UC Law San Francisco, and Phil Wallach, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, to discuss pocket rescissions as an approach to cancelling funds previously approved by Congress. They cover whether the practice is legal, how it threatens Congress’s institutional power, and how they fit in with broader efforts by the Trump administration.
Read the letter that Price, along with administrative law professors Matthew Lawrence, Gillian Metzger, Eloise Pasachoff, and Darien Shanske, sent to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees in which they argue that the president's use of pocket rescissions is unlawful here or below:
