1974 Impoundment Control Act
Twice impeached, convicted felon Trump claims he knows nothing about the unpopular Project 2025, which calls for an authoritarian leader to violate the Constitution and impose Christian nationalism on the United States. Of course, his own appointees wrote it, his own political action committee advertised it as his plan, and his name appears in it 312 times. Project 2025 was created by the Heritage Foundation think-tank and runs for nearly 900 pages.
Written by former Trump administration officials, it calls for firing thousands of civil servants and replacing them with political loyalists. It proposes expanding the power of the president, dismantling the Department of Education, a ban on pornography, and halting sales of the contraception. Representative Glenn Grothman (R-WI) said that if Trump wins reelection, the U.S. should work its way back to 1960, before “the angry feminist movement…took the purpose out of the man’s life.”
Agenda 47, the official Trump campaign website, has offered more information. Judd Legum pointed out in Popular Information, a key author of Project 2025, Christian nationalist Russell Vought, has advanced a plan for killing aspects of government, and Trump has adopted that plan, vowing to cancel agencies or laws he dislikes by refusing to spend money Congress appropriates. This is known as “impoundment,” and Congress made it illegal in 1974.
Trump says the 1974 Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional because it interferes with the power of the presidency. He promised to use it to “crush the Deep State.” First on the chopping block will be the Departments of Justice and then Education.
“The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers.”
–Dick the Butcher in Act IV, Scene II of William Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part II
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens quoted this line in a 1985 decision:
“As a careful reading of that text will reveal, Shakespeare insightfully realized that disposing of lawyers is a step in the direction of a totalitarian form of government.”
Give the mob WWE and MMA instead of an education or rights.
