Nathan Tankus
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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That is is not supposed to be.
Abrogated.
There is some, you know, the historical precedent here is the Nixon administration, the impoundment act of 1974, was meant to stop Nixon for impounding because he claimed that he could impound because you know Congress is spending too much and there, you know, maybe we're not going to be able to do that.
Impounding
Uh
C um yes, empowerment is the concept of the president deciding not to spend money that Congress has appropriated.
And and Congress appropriating the money is a directive to spend, and especially when Congress directs uh for
an exact amount of money to be spent or an exact formula of money to be spent.
The president does not have the authority to.
Just stop those payments.
Yes.
I mean that is the traditional check and balance in our system is that the judiciary is supposed to step in and speak to a constitutional question and
Im impose or say that a certain act that the president is engaging in is unconstitutional and should be stopped.
In this situation, the obvious thing to say about that is that Trump appointed three of the nine Supreme Court justices that are on the Supreme Court.
So it it seems very unlikely, although not impossible, that.
the Supreme Court would actually step in and declare what Trump's doing unconstitutional and even more importantly, impose some sort of consequences or block to what Trump is doing.
The potential is absolutely enormous.
The reporting that that I've done that confirms the Wired's reporting is that there is a twenty-five-year-old SpaceX, former SpaceX employee, Marco Alez, who has read and write access to the payment auto automation manager and the secure payment system of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service.
It is an absolutely enormously terrifying situation.
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