The Constitution unambiguously grants Congress the power to determine how tax dollars are spent, an uncomfortable reality for the Trump administration's designs to unilaterally slash spending. Many of the cuts recommended by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency in the spring therefore needed the retroactive blessing of Congress, a process known as "rescission." And media reports suggest that the Trump administration is soon set to escalate its war on Congress' spending power by using something dubbed a "pocket rescission" to block funding without giving Congress enough time to consider the request.

What is the Trump administration trying to do?

Congress frequently rescinds money it had previously allocated for all kinds of reasons. But the Office of Management and Budget (OMB

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