1974 Impoundment Act
I keep waiting for someone to explain what the law states about a president withholding congressional appropriated funds, it would certainly be helpful to provide people following the proceedings with what the law has to say about drumpf's actions.
This is what the 1974 Impoundment Act states:
The Act had two main goals: (1) strengthen and centralize Congress' budget authority; (2) reduce the President's impoundment authority. The latter was done by drafting detailed guidelines restricting how the President can impound funds already appropriated by Congress. The former—which has proven the more significant of the two—was done through a variety of means. The Act created the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to give Congress independent economic analysis and end the Executive Branch's monopoly on budgetary information created by the 1921 Budget and Accounting Act. It created standing budget committees in both the House and the Senate, provided for greater numbers of staff for these and other committees involved in budget decisions, and made changes in the procedure of passing a budget. The new budget committee was required to pass a ‘concurrent budget resolution' (to be passed by Congress no later than May 15) outlining the government's overall expenditures and receipts, based on CBO estimates. The concurrent resolution would then serve as the blueprint for the regular work of the authorizing and appropriating committees as they drafted the budget.
It should be noted that from today's testimony it was explained that congress felt that their concerns about the Zelensky administration's commitment to root-out corruption were met BEFORE congress agreed to releasing funds to aid in Ukraine's security on an bipartisan basis.
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