Tariffs and American Sovereignty
More than a problem for economic social science, trade policy is a practical question of national sovereignty.
The President’s Constitutional Power of Impoundment
Since the Founding, it has been understood that Article II vests the President with authority to decline to spend the full amount of an appropriated fund.
TEASER: Fearless at the Point of Attack: The Jeff Clark Story
Fiscal Update: Appropriations Process at Congress’ Summer Break
If leadership succeeds in combining annual spending caps and the debt limit in a single bill for the second year in a row, they can argue the precedent is the new normal. Leadership would usurp even more authority from individual legislators, diminishing our republican form of government.