The Trump impoundment reckoning has only been delayed

Published January 31, 2025 12:00am ET



The Democratic Party and its allies in news media and the executive branch of the federal government are celebrating the White House Office of Management and Budget rescinding a memorandum intended to align federal spending with President Donald Trump’s executive orders. But the celebrations are likely to prove short-lived.

Trump’s effort to halt federal spending on specific grants that contradict his directives continues at pace. Nonprofit groups hit by those freezes will sue again, and Trump can be expected to triumph over all of them, restoring the presidency’s briefly lost impoundment power.

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