Trump Can Reduce The National Debt

To the Editor:

President Trump is openly challenging the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. This is an unconstitutional law that impedes a president’s Article II authority to reduce spending by the federal government. For 186 years prior to this law, presidents had the ability to lower deficit spending by simply impounding wasteful expenditures.

Today, the federal government is $36 trillion in debt. Almost a quarter of this enormous debt was created by the Biden Administration, that was running a deficit of around $2 trillion every year.

If President Trump was returned his constitutional authority to impound congressional outlays, he could immediately go to work, reversing years of extravagant expenditures created by Democrat lawmakers.

In the coming months, we will probably be hearing the word “impoundment” often as this case makes its way through the courts. Fortunately, it will ultimately be settled in the Supreme Court, where we have six conservative justices who recognize that $36 trillion of national debt is outrageous. Pat Topping Woods Prairie