Andy Kroll

They say, we're doing a review of this funding, but these reviews have no timetable.

The agencies don't know how long or why this review is happening or why.

Vogt and his colleagues will say, this funding doesn't align with the president's priorities.

It's part of the green new scam, a term that they've used, or it's part of, quote unquote, transing our kids.

And so they just hold the money back.

And that has created this chaos across the federal government because the normal functioning of how laws get passed, money gets appropriated, and agencies do their work has been completely jammed up.

It depends on what kind of money we're talking about.

Sometimes the money is over a multi-year period.

Sometimes the money is called no-year funding, which means it doesn't have an expiration date.

But

by and large, this money does have an expiration date, often one fiscal year.

And the money will expire at the end of the fiscal year if it hasn't been spent.

And one budgetary gambit that Vote has used just several months ago was trying to freeze federal funding so close to the end of the fiscal year that it would just expire on its own without any

support from Congress without any attempt to get the legislative branch to sign off on that.

And again, this is one of these maneuvers that vote is using now to try to upend the normal functioning of our democratic system.

Yeah, and we're getting into the budgetary weeds here, but these are really critical.

Yeah, that's right.

And they are very much the tools that Vogt has been using to accomplish the very goal he talked about in that Tucker Carlson clip that you played earlier.

In June, the White House sent what's called a rescission request down Pennsylvania Avenue to Congress saying,

What that asked Congress to do, that request, was to rescind $9 billion that Congress had already appropriated by law.