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Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan - Senate Appropriations Chair Collins (R-ME) opposes Trump's "pocket recessions": "This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law....I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions."
Quoted Post:
Sen. Susan Collins @SenatorCollins
Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration.  This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress’s Constitutional power of the purse. 
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law. 
Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress’s appropriations powers.  OMB is an agency of the executive branch.  It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
https://x.com/CraigCaplan/status/2103902411043504620

Craig Caplan @CraigCaplan - White House Budget's top lawyer on President Trump's "pocket rescission for another nearly $1 billion of the most harmful government spending."
Quoted Post:
Mark Paoletta @MarkPaoletta
🧵CONGRESS decided that these funds would lapse on September 30.
CONGRESS decided to grant itself an expedited procedure to consider rescinding funds and told the President to hold the funds while Congress decides whether to rescind.
CONGRESS decided not to limit the time period in which the President can send a rescission.