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President Donald Trump used a controversial pocket rescission to cancel nearly $1 billion in congressionally approved funding for immigrant services, diversity initiatives, and other social programs.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reasserted Tuesday that President Trump’s use of a “pocket rescission” to cancel $810 million in federal funding was unlawful. The letter by the government watchdog’s lead attorney, Edda Emmanuelli Perez, outlined under the Impoundment Control Act (ICA) of 1974, “the…