Amid Democrats’ relentless obstruction of Department of Government Efficiency cost-cutting plans, White House allusions to use the “pocket rescission” has Democrats plotting how to keep the Trump administration from cutting waste, fraud, and abuse in this way, too.

White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought is tasked with managing President Donald Trump’s agenda on cutting government spending and has mentioned using “all manner of provisions.”

Sources told The New York Times that might include issuing spending rescission requests near the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, forcing a 45-day window for Congress to debate the claw-back of spending, which ultimately puts funds on hold long enough for it just to expire anyway, since unspent funds do not roll over to the next year.

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