Congress is going to have to send those monies to those peoples, Hassett said, before shifting to tout the current economy. But the thing we can say is that since July we have had a lot of positive news about the economy. We've had a couple of quarters of almost 4% growth. We've got a big government surplus actually running for a few months in a row. The deficit relative to last year is down by $600 billion, Hassett said.
Lawmakers opted not to include a reauthorization package for the Technology Modernization Fund in the final negotiated text for the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act that was released Sunday night. This means the fund's future is unclear with just four days to go until its authorization expires, as TMF backers were gunning for the NDAA as a way to get its reauthorization to the finish line.
On Tuesday, Chief Justice John Roberts rewarded the Trump administration's lawless revocation of $4 billion in foreign aid by freezing a lower court order that had required the government to distribute the money. Roberts' intervention is an ominous indication that the full court may soon greenlight the president's "pocket rescission" of funds expressly appropriated by Congress. This decision would hand Donald Trump a sweeping spending power that the Constitution does not assign to him