Russell Vogt

Of impoundment.

The ability to not spend money.

For 200 years, presidents had the ability to not spend a congressional appropriation.

So 200 years, presidents are using impoundment.

They get money for something.

The president says, I don't think it's a good idea or I certainly can do it better.

But you weren't ever meant to be forced to spend it and it has become a floor.

They passed the Impoundment Control Act, which was really the Impoundment Elimination Act.

And I believe, as a budget guy, that was the original sin on why we can't do anything fiscally from that moment on.

Impoundment is vitally important not just to save the country fiscally, it is vitally important to be able to wrest control of the bureaucracy.

The proposal would rescind $1.1 billion in funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Which has funded a politically biased public media system that has promoted radical and divisive ideologies at the American taxpayer's expense.

We've talked about defunding Corporation for Public Broadcasting for decades.

President Trump's the first one to be able to do it.

We can actually save the country.

And that's really what it comes down to.

The hour's late.

It's not too late, but it's really late.

If we don't execute, we may never have this chance again.

We want to make sure that the bureaucracy can't reconstitute itself later in future administrations.