Potus chasing $4.9bn foreign aid cut

>>WASHINGTON: The White House has informed Congress it intends to cancel US$4.9 billion (158 billion baht) that lawmakers approved for foreign aid programmes, invoking a little-known and legally untested power to slash spending without their approval.

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The 15-page notification, sent to Congress on Thursday night and reviewed by The New York Times, is the administration’s first attempt to push through what is known as a “pocket rescission”. It is an effort to unilaterally claw back money that has already been appropriated by waiting so late in the fiscal year to make the request that lawmakers do not have time to reject it before the funding expires.