President Donald Trump will ask Congress to codify spending cuts, a top official at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said on April 3.
At his nomination hearing, Eric Ueland, the acting chief of staff at OMB and Trump’s nominee for deputy director for management, told the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs that the White House “will be sending a rescission package—at least one—to Congress.”
A rescission package is when the administration requests Congress to undo funding that the legislative branch has already appropriated. It is not subject to the 60-vote filibuster threshold in the Senate that applies to most legislation, and therefore, such a move would only need a simple majority in both chambers of Congress....
