'Roads Will Not Be Paved': GOP Think Tank Says Trump Will Cut Off All Funding to Red State Unless It Passes New Map

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9. "He cannot cut off funding that has passed through Congress."

He HAS been "cutting off funding passed through Congress" for the past 11 months and every entity that has had that happen, has been forced to go to court and hope that a TRO is put in place, and if so, then 45 ignores the court order, delays funding restoration while appealing the lower court ruling.

And although most appellate courts have upheld the district court TROs, when they do, 45 goes running to "Daddy Roberts" and the appellate court ruling is overturned through the "shadow docket", and the funding continues to be delayed until en banc reviews resolve the issue, and then *maybe* the funding is restored, sometimes months later.

USAID is the epitome of "cutting off funding passed through Congress" and the agency no longer exists now.

In some cases, 45 learned about submitting a "recessions package" for Congress so they can repeal their original funding for certain things, and the GOP zombies have obeyed, and passed the rescissions.

He has also withheld the distribution of funding until the end of the fiscal year (Sept. 30) - dubbed a "pocket rescission", and if that withheld funding is not spent before Oct. 1, it automatically falls back to the Treasury, and is "killed" for whoever it was designated for.