Photo by Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via APThe Senate passed a $9 billion rescission bill yesterday. If you’re wondering what that means, you’re not alone. Rescission is a rarely used mechanism where the executive branch goes back to Congress asking it to claw back funding already allocated in the budget. It hasn’t been deployed in some 25 years, but the White House insisted on it this session. Through the rescission process, the White House can essentially get Congress to ratify cuts it unilaterally made. This is problematic in a number of ways, but it’s particularly troubling given Trump’s first few months in his second term when “DOGE” slashed funding and the Office of Management and Budget impounded critical grants and funding, throwing the entire federal system into chaos.If it can do that and then go back after the fact to get sign off, the White House will be incentivized to
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