"You think the work is done when Congress passes appropriations, but this is showing that that's not always going to be the ...

The fourth leg of the budgetary process is rescission. In the 1974 Budget and Impoundment Control Act, rescissions became the impoundment tool of presidents.

Must produce a non-incidental change to the federal budget. In other words, it must primarily be a change to spending or revenue. Provisions with no or minimal budgetary impact, or that are mostly ...