<p>How <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> Plans to Seize the Power of the Purse From <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a><br>—</p><p>Rather than relying on his party’s control of Congress to trim the <a href="/tags/budget/" rel="tag">#budget</a>, Trump and his advisers intend to test an obscure legal theory holding that presidents have sweeping power to defund programs they dislike. </p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/president/" rel="tag">#President</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/constitution/" rel="tag">#Constitution</a> <a href="/tags/impoundment/" rel="tag">#Impoundment</a> <a href="/tags/potus/" rel="tag">#POTUS</a></p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-impoundment-appropriations-congress-budget" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-impoundment-appropriations-congress-budget"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-impoundment-appropriations-congress-budget</span></a></p>