POGO -  The Trump administration is illegally blocking funding from reaching and benefiting your community. A nonpartisan watchdog agency declared that the administration broke the law by holding up funds from the bipartisan 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. 

Congress, not the president or his Cabinet, has sole power of the purse. The people’s branch gets to decide how and where the people’s tax dollars are spent.

There is a reason our Constitution gives Congress this power. The foundational guardrail ensures that decisions about the allocation of precious resources are made by the people who represent and advocate for you. And the Impoundment Control Act, passed by Congress in 1974 and upheld by the courts since, has made it crystal clear that the president cannot override Congress's spending decisions.

This is an alarming overreach from the administration — and unfortunately, all too familiar. President Trump was impeached during his first term, in part, for illegally impounding funds. Congress cannot let this continue.