Lawfare Daily: Trump’s Rescissions Request, Impoundments, and the Litigation Over Foreign Assistance

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🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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For today’s episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Lawfare Senior Editor and Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Molly Reynolds sat down for a conversation about the rescissions package President Trump recently put forward to Congress, how it relates to the litigation over the president’s attempted cuts to U.S. foreign assistance, and what it all signals about how the administration intends to handle impoundments moving forward.

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“The Myth of Presidential Impoundment Power” from Protect Democracy

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