President Trump has proposed a new policy to essentially gut the administrative state. This new policy centers around a little known executive

power, a power that was used by presidents for well over 150 years

before being stripped away a half century ago. However, according to this new proposal,

President Trump said that he would work to claw back what's known as the power of impalment.

Here's specifically what he said in a relevant part of a speech that he delivered over in the state of New Hampshire.

Today I'm proposing another new policy that will help us drain the swamp to stop

Biden's wasteful spending and crippling inflation I will fight to restore the

President's historic impoundment power a lot of you don't know what that is. For 200

years the president had the right to block unneeded spending and return the

funds directly to the Treasury. They stopped that. Congress unconstitutionally probably attacked the

impoundment power in 1974, but it will come back, we're going to bring it it back and we will squeeze the bloated federal

bureaucracy and we'll instead of just having to just spend it we're going to reduce our

debt now if you've never heard of the presidential power of impalment before, you're not alone.

I'm sure that if I asked a thousand people out there on the street, well, I would be

surprised if even a single person knows about this power at all.

And so today, let's go through what this power of imp of empowerment is, how it came to be lost,

and what it would mean for the country back about 50 years to the 1970s.

Back then, just like today, the rate of inflation was spiraling out of control.

And as this was happening, the Nixon administration pinned the blame on Congress,

or as he referred to it as the Credit Card Congress.

Essentially, his argument was that it was unfettered

congressional spending that was leading to inflation. And along that line

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