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Impoundment & Rescissions blog
How Washington learned to budget, from the 1921 act to the 1997 dealEach major budget law answered the last failure. Dated entries from 1921 to 1997 show what each one fixed, what it broke, and what the pattern tells us.Nixon Impounded the Money, Congress Fought Back, and the 1974 Law Still RulesMust a president spend what Congress appropriates? The law that governs the answer was written against Richard Nixon and still decides spending fights.