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In a meeting of the House Judiciary Committee, Democrats repeatedly failed to use the power of the purse to bar Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from carrying out deportations without due process.

Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Thursday that the “power of the purse” had to return to the legislative branch amid tariff proposals that could sour voters.

Indeed, Politico reported this week that Vice President JD Vance promised House Republicans wary of approving more spending that the administration would pursue impoundment, which legal experts decry as an unconstitutional attempt to seize Congress' power of the purse.

The bigger problem, however, is that in order to force the CR through the House, Vice President JD Vance promised Republican lawmakers that Trump and his administration would pursue impoundment, an illegal method of budget cutting in which the executive seizes Congress’s power of the purse by refusing to spend money appropriated by a coequal branch of government.

Article I gives Congress, not the president, the explicit power of the purse, but more than that, congressional authority to pass legislation and control the nation’s money is, by design, a Constitutional check on the power of the presidency.