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TLDR

Understanding the Power of Impoundment is critical to anons grasping how Swamp's gained control over the POTUS position and what (possibly) Trump has been doing to reverse this. We should investigate this critical aspect, gain a deeper grasp of "The Plan" and activate the American People to support this key Policy via information and memetic warfare.

Introduction

Today I watched a short video by Epoch Times "Facts Matter" Report on DJT's proposal to restore the Power of Impoundment.

You can watch this [15 min. video]((https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/trump-invokes-long-lost-executive-power-to-gut-administrative-state-facts-matter-5650876) if you have an Epoch Account, or you sign in with Google or input your email address.

Here is the report blurb:

In a campaign speech, former President Donald Trump gave the country a glimpse into the specific method that he’ll use to try and gut the administrative state—if he gets elected again. Essentially, President Trump proposed a new policy centered around a little-known executive power—a power that was used by presidents for over 150 years before being stripped about a half-century ago.

However, according to this new proposal, President Trump said that he would work to restore what’s known as the “power of impoundment.”

Below, I introduce some of the key points of the video and other related issues.

Trump's Proposal for Trump Administration 2.0

Today, I am proposing another new policy that will help us Drain the Swamp. To stop Biden’s wasteful spending and crippling inflation, I will fight to restore the president’s historic IMPOUNDMENT power. A lot of you don't know what that is. For 200 years, the president had the right to block unneeded spending and return the funds to the Treasury. They stopped that.

Congress unconstitutionally (probably) attacked the impoundment power in 1974, but it will come back. We're gonna bring it back, and we will squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy, and instead of us just having to spend it, we're going to reduce our debt....

SAUCE: Trump Speech, New Hampshire June 27, 2023. Time Mark 53:55~

How Power of Impoundment was lost: The Clash Between Nixon and Congress

In the 70's, inflation was spiraling out of control. Nixon blamed Congressional Spending, and tried to impose a limit on spending.

President Nixon appealed to Congress today to protect the “economic interest of all American citizens” by enacting a $250‐billion spending ceiling, and threatened to veto any measure he deemed excessive.....

In his message to Congress, Mr. Nixon said that spending for the fiscal year 1973, which began July 1, was already nearly $7‐billion higher than he had planned in his budget.

“That figure by itself is bad enough,” the President said, but he noted that even more spending “appears to be on the way. The inevitable result,” he said, “would be higher taxes and more income‐eating inflation in the form of higher prices.” He added:

“I am convinced the American people do not want their family budgets wrecked by higher taxes and higher prices, and I will not stand by and permit such irresponsible action to undermine the clear progress we have made in getting America's workers off the inflation treadmill of the nineteen‐sixties.”

SAUCE: New York Times, July 27, 1972

Congress ignored Nixon, appropriated even more money, but then Nixon simply refused to spend it. This is the power of impoundment. Essentially, he impounded the money that was allocated by congress.

This power of impoundment was used by US presidents for more than 150 years, starting from the Jefferson administration.

The concept here is that the budget set by congress is the ceiling, the maximum that the executive can spend in that fiscal year. The budget from congress sets the limit, but it is still in the president's discretion whether his administration actually spends it or not.

However, Nixon was in a very tight spot, because of the Watergate situation, and when the Deep State pressured Nixon to comply with Congress, he signed the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974.

The Impact of Losing the Power of Impoundment

After this, instead of Congress setting the max ceiling the Administration can spend, it now sets the minimum floor that the administration must spend. The president has to spend it; he can no longer 'impound' that money.

Russ Vought, Trump’s last director of the Office of Management and Budget, calls the concession of impoundment power “the original sin” that ensured “the executive branch no longer plays a meaningful role” in the appropriations process. Vought told RCP in an interview that the power of the purse has become “caricature,” where rather than “setting ceilings,” Congress now sets “spending floors.”

Hence, Trump’s “unhappy” signature on multiple multi trillion-dollar spending bills.

Trump promised he would “never sign another bill like this again” before putting his signature on a “crazy” $1.3 trillion spending bill in 2018. Two years later, he signed another omnibus bill, this one worth $1.4 trillion, that he called “disgraceful.” Both times, Trump justified voting for the bloated bills conservatives loathed by pointing to increased military spending.

SAUCE: Trump Plan To Bypass Congress and Starve ‘The Deep State’; Real Clear Politics, June 28 2023

If the power of impoundment is restored, then this would give the POTUS the discretion how much his administration spends, instead of only having a veto power against congressional bills.

Trump Bumps Up Against the Power of Impoundment

In 2019, DJT's administration 'froze' the funds Congress had assigned to be given to Ukraine. Then, in his famous phone call with Zelensky, Trump discussed investigations in to the Biden corruption, and this triggered the impeachment proceedings in Jan 2020.

Here is how NPR spins it:

"A federal watchdog concluded that President Trump broke the law when he froze assistance funds for Ukraine last year, according to a report unveiled on Thursday.

The White House has said that it believed Trump was acting within his legal authority.

Trump's decision to freeze military aid appropriated by Congress is at the heart of impeachment proceedings against the president that are shifting venues this week from the Democrat-controlled House to the majority-Republican Senate.

Democratic lawmakers have accused Trump of abusing his office by withholding hundreds of millions in assistance in order to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals."

https://www.npr.org/2020/01/16/796806517/trump-broke-the-law-in-freezing-ukraine-funds-watchdog-report-concludes

So Trump 'freezes the funds, triggering accusations that he violated the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, and sets up the perfect framework for raising the issue of quid-pro-quo which damns the Biden Crime family.

This was a double-whammy. One, Trump lured the Deep State into accusing him of the quid-pro-quo that he already knew Biden was 100% guilty of, and Two, he brought the issue of the Power of Impoundment into the fight, while remaining innocent, because they only 'froze' the funds and did not actually 'impound' the funds.

The Deep State could not resist the temptation, accused Trump of violating the Impoundment Control act of 1974 in order to 'illegally' pressure Zelensky to undermine/attack his political rival, Biden.

See also: how the Swamp spins this: Dispelling The Myth That President Trump’s Ukraine Aid Freeze Was Rooted In His Desire To Combat Corruption

Trump 2024 Campaign Video (4 minutes) on Restoring Impoundment

2024 Trump Platform - Restoring Impoundment to "Cut Waste, Stop Inflation" aka Crush the Deep State

Trump Statement Agenda 47 Video) - Using Impoundment to Cut Waste, Stop Inflation, and Crush the Deep State

Discussion

• Understanding how the president's impoundment powers were lost gives insight into the war that the Deep State was waging against Richard Nixon. Was Nixon taken down by the Deep State? Was Nixon the next domino in the Cabal destroying the American presidency, after Kennedy was assassinated?

• Is it a coincidence that the Power of Impoundment issue was key to the Trump impeachment in 2020? Was the 'freezing' of the Ukraine funds and the then 'perfect phone call' with Zelensky part of DJT's plan to expose quid-pro-quo not only by Biden Crime Family, but by so many corrupt players in the Swamp?

• Did Trump's 202 impeachment a) educate the American people on the concept of quid-pro-quo, advancing the foundation for awakening and b) public mandate for prosecution of the Swamp in Trump Administration 2.0?

• Has the restoration of the Power of Impoundment been part of the White Hat plan all along to actually destroy and drain the swamp? Could this aspect of the Plan be advanced successfully without public mandate?

• How important is the restoration of the Power of Impoundment?

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Epilogue

I think that digging into this particular issue has helped me to gain insight into one aspect of the Plan by the White Hats to recover the Republic and has added to my perspective on the decades-long war against the American People that the Cabal (and Satan) has perpetrated by attacking and destroying the US Presidency.

Destroying the US Presidency: All the way from Assassination to the Manchurian Candidate

Eisenhower: Fired Warning Shots against the DS

Kennedy: Executed because he threatened the DS

Johnson: The Cabal replaces Kennedy, claims the Presidency

Nixon: White Hats fighting back, but power of Presidency already curtailed, prestige of Presidency decimated and Nixon removed

Ford, Carter - Consolidation of swamp power, advancing destruction of America

Reagan: White Hats attempting to fight back, but Presidency already irreversibly crippled

Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama: Cabal progressively entrenching power, destroying the American constitutional Republic

Trump #1: White Hats gain control of the Game Board, White Hats lay the foundation for restoration

Biden: Cabal cornered into exposing themselves, DS consistently being forced into moves that destroy them

Trump #2: Execution of Justice Phase and complete destruction of the DS and Cabal foundation, the starting point for truly restoring America

See also: "the 3-stage Plan" concept

Stage #1 : "The Sting": Trump Administration No. 1, laying the foundation, laying the traps, preparation phase

Stage #2 : "Disclosure and Exposure": Devolution Phase aka "sort of" Administration #2: Building the public mandate via awakening, exposing the reality of the Deep State and Swamp, red-pilling America

Stage #3 : "Justice And Execution": Trump Administration No. 2, implementation of justice, cleaning the swamp, reestablishment of rule of Law, restoring the republic

For Reference

VIDEO: What The Deep State Is - In 3 Minutes - Jacob Chansley with Tucker Carlson

Hat tip to Uber-Contributor u/purkiss80/ who posted on this topic 2 weeks ago: https://greatawakening.win/p/17t1fQlVrV/trump-statement-agenda-47--using/

https://x.com/RealStevefriend/status/1790873248210501922

Meanwhile, FBI whistleblowers like @GOBactual and @KyleSeraphin lost their livelihoods and have zero recourse. These stories are innumerable. Our system is completely broken. https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/24-048.pdf

https://x.com/MakisMD/status/1675170885458882560

This is such good information...some people do this yearly to reset their immune systems...the replies are always interesting to read...Dr. Makis has been such a champion for truth...I truly appreciate his calling...