Statements by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America

ICYMI: “Donald Trump Correctly Predicted Hunter Biden Would Be Charged with ‘Something Small’”

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ICYMI: Stopping Crime and Restoring Safety

President Donald. J Trump reduced violent crime across the country and stood strongly with America’s law enforcement. On Joe Biden’s watch, violent crime has skyrocketed in virtually every American city and has put targets on the back of our law enforcement officials.

 

In Joe Biden’s first year in office, twelve major cities broke all-time high murder records. [1]

 

Since Joe Biden has taken office, over 779 people have been murdered in the city of Los Angeles, a 44% increase from the first two years of President Trump’s term. [2]  Robberies, assaults, auto thefts in Los Angeles have increased every year since Joe Biden took office. [3]

 

At least nine cities, seven of which are Democrat-run, saw record homicides last year. [4]

 

Philadelphia recorded the highest number of homicides in its history in 2021, followed by its second-highest number of homicides in 2022. [5]  Crime data shows New York City saw a 22% hike in crime in 2022 from 2021, with the most gun-related arrests in 27 years. [6]  New York City set new felony crimes record last year, with the most felony crimes reported in at least 15 years. [7]

 

In Washington D.C., carjackings increased for the fifth straight year. [8]

 

In Chicago, crime increased 61% in the first three weeks of 2023 alone, compared to the previous year. [9] Murders in Compton, California nearly doubled in Joe Biden’s first year in office—an increase of 89% from 2020. [10]  Walmart announced that it will be closing half its stores in Chicago. [11]

 

As the Biden administration does little to curb crime across the country, one of America’s biggest retailers, Target reported that looting has resulted in losses in excess of $400 million in 2022 alone. [12]  CVS, one of the nation’s largest drugstore chains reported a 300% increase in theft in 2022. [13]

 

Rite Aid, a national drugstore chain, suffered over $5 million in losses as a result of theft in New York City, in their most recent quarter alone. [14]

 

As Democrat-run cities become bastions of violence and rioting, Joe Biden ended the practice of supplying local and state law enforcement with surplus military equipment and repeatedly proposed having unarmed civilian mental health officials respond to police calls. [15]

 

In April 2023, Biden commuted the sentences of 31 people convicted of drug crimes. [16]

 

Joe Biden has supported and promoted radical left-wing prosecutors and district attorneys, including hiring Soros-funded DA Rachael Rollins as Massachusetts’s top federal prosecutor. [17]

 

Joe Biden’s condemnation of America’s law enforcement has resulted in 45% increase in police retirements, with another 18% resigning altogether since he took office. [18]

 

The Baltimore Police Department lost about 280 officers last year, with the city short at least 600 officers. [19]

 

It requires little imagination to explain the mass exodus of America’s police officers. Joe Biden publicly denounced his own Border Patrol agents over false claims that horseback agents “whipped” migrants with their reins, even referring four agents for discipline. [20]

 

While the nation faces a police recruitment shortage, Joe Biden past comments include suggesting that police officers should be trained to shoot suspects in the leg, when they feel lethal force is necessary—drawing harsh criticism from the law enforcement community. [21]

 

President Trump respected America’s law enforcement, reduced violent crime, and showed compassion through meaningful criminal justice reform.

 

During President Trump’s term, violent crime dropped over 5 percent and the murder rate decreased by over 7 percent. [22]  To combat a surge of violent crime in cities, President Trump launched Operation Legend, resulting in more than 5,500 arrests. [23]

 

President Trump deployed the National Guard and federal law enforcement to Kenosha to stop violence and deployed federal agents to save a federal courthouse in Portland from rioters. [24]  Additionally, President Trump signed an executive order outlining ten-year prison sentences for destroying federal property and monuments. [25]

 

The Trump administration’s Department of Justice provided nearly $400 million for new law enforcement hiring. President Trump backed America’s law enforcement officers and earned the endorsement of the 355,000 members of the Fraternal Order of Police.  [26]

 

President Trump signed an executive order to help prevent violence against law enforcement officers, prosecutors, judges, and their families. [27]

 

To combat protect communities, the Trump administration made hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of surplus military equipment available to local law enforcement. [28]  President Trump signed the Fix NICS Act, to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous criminals, the STOP School Violence Act, and created a Commission on School Safety to examine ways to make our schools safer. [29]

 

President Trump established a task force to help combat the tragedy of missing or murdered Native American women and girls. [30]  Also, President Trump created the first-ever White House position focused solely on combating human trafficking. [31]

 

President Trump has called on Congress to immediately vote to exercise its legal authority over Washington, D.C. to restore law and order to our nation’s capital. [32]

 

If Marxist prosecutors betray their oaths and refuse to protect law-abiding citizens, President Trump has committed to send federal law enforcement into America’s cities to restore peace and public safety. [33]

 

President Trump will ask Congress to ensure that drug smugglers and traffickers can receive the death penalty.

When President Trump is back in the White House, the drug kingpins and vicious traffickers will never sleep soundly again.

 

President Trump will deliver record funding to hire and retrain police officers, strengthen qualified immunity and other protections for police officers, increase penalties for assaults on law enforcement, put violent offenders and career criminals behind bars, and surge federal prosecutors and the National Guard into high-crime communities. [34]

 

 

 

[1]   https://abcnews.go.com/US/12-m...

[2]   https://xtown.la/2023/01/23/cr...

[3]  Ibid.

[4]   https://www.foxnews.com/us/nin...

[5]   https://www.phillypolice.com/c...

[6]   https://www.nytimes.com/2023/0...

[7]   https://nypost.com/2023/02/12/...

[8]   https://www.axios.com/local/wa...

[9]   https://nypost.com/2023/01/30/...

[10] https://www.rit.edu/liberalarts/sites/rit.edu.liberalarts/files/docs.pdf

[11]   https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12...

[12]   https://finance.yahoo.com/news...

[13]   https://www.axios.com/2022/02/...

[14]   https://www.thestreet.com/inve...

[15]   https://www.aclu.org/news/crim...

[16]   https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29...

[17]   https://nationalcenter.org/pro...

[18]   https://www.policeforum.org/wo...

[19]   https://www.foxnews.com/us/bal...

[20]   https://www.foxnews.com/politi...

[21]   https://www.fox13news.com/news...

[22]   https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr...

[23]  Ibid.

[24]   https://www.politico.com/news/...

[25]   https://www.npr.org/2020/06/23...

[26]   https://thehill.com/homenews/c...

[27]   https://www.govinfo.gov/conten...

[28]   https://www.nbcnews.com/politi...

[29]   https://stefanik.house.gov/201...

[30]   https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr...

[31]   https://www.pbs.org/newshour/n...

[32]   https://rumble.com/v279p8i-its...

[33]  Ibid.

[34] https://www.donaldjtrump.com/a...

ICYMI: President Donald J. Trump Announces Plan to Destroy the Drug Cartels

Mar-a-Lago, FL – As Joe Biden prepares to make his first-ever trip to the southern border that he deliberately erased, President Trump announced that when he is president again, it will be the official policy of the United States to take down the drug cartels just as we took down ISIS.

 

Watch the video announcement

 

“The drug cartels are waging war on America—and it's now time for America to wage war on the cartels,” President Trump said. “The drug cartels and their allies in the Biden administration have the blood of countless millions on their hands. Millions and millions of families and people are being destroyed. When I am back in the White House, the drug kingpins and vicious traffickers will never sleep soundly again.”

 

President Donald J. Trump’s Plan to Destroy the Drug Cartels

“The drug cartels are waging war on America—and it’s now time for America to wage war on the cartels.” – Donald J. Trump

President Trump laid out an aggressive plan to dismantle the criminal trafficking networks that are destroying lives and communities on both sides of the border.

 

TRUMP ACTION PLAN TO DESTROY THE DRUG CARTELS:

• Restore all Trump border policies and fully secure border
• Deploy all necessary military assets, including the U.S. Navy, to impose a full naval embargo on the cartels, to ensure they cannot use our region’s waters to traffic illicit drugs to the U.S.
• Order the Department of Defense to make appropriate use of special forces, cyber warfare, and other covert and overt actions to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership, infrastructure, and operations
• Designate the major drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations
• Cut off the cartels’ access to the global financial system 
• Get full cooperation of neighboring governments to dismantle the cartels, or else fully expose the bribes and corruption that protect these criminal networks
• Ask Congress to ensure drug smugglers and traffickers can receive the Death Penalty

BIDEN’S DEADLY DESTRUCTION OF OUR BORDER: Joe Biden has spent the last two years dismantling the southern border. Biden’s Open Borders policies are killing innocent Americans , ravaging American communities, enriching the cartels, and destabilizing large parts of Mexico and Latin America .

• Since Joe Biden took office, an estimated 200,000+ Americans have died from drug overdoses.
• Hundreds of thousands of pounds of ultra-lethal fentanyl, heroin, meth, cocaine, and other illicit narcotics are pouring across our wide-open border and into American communities. Federal officials estimate that they only seize up to 10% of these drugs.
  • Enough fentanyl was seized at the border last year to kill every single American.
• Biden inherited the strongest border in U.S. history, and turned it into the greatest border disaster in the history of the world.
• Biden stopped wall construction, gutted Remain in Mexico, ripped up asylum cooperation agreements, imposed catch-and-release across the entire southern border, slandered and attacked border agents, announced the cancelation of Title 42, and effectively abolished interior enforcement.
• Drug cartels and human smugglers have seen their revenue skyrocket by an estimated 2,500%, netting $13 billion this year. Trafficking illegal alien migrants is now a major source of revenue for the drug cartels.
• Fueled in major part by Biden’s border disaster, the number of Americans killed due to fentanyl increased by 94% since 2019, and fentanyl poisoning has become the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 45.  

BIDEN’S PRO-CARTEL BORDER POLICIES ARE ALSO DEVESTATING MEXICO:

• Reports of torture in Mexico have doubled, and reports of violence by criminal groups against authorities or large crowds rose 756% in the first half of 2022 compared to the previous year.
• In Mexico, over 100,000 civilians are missing or murdered at the hands of the cartels, with an average of 25 Mexican citizens disappearing every day.
• Cartels have destabilized Mexico by bribing officials at all levels of government, assassinating journalists and public servants, and mass murdering political candidates.
• Biden’s actions are pushing vulnerable migrant women and children into the arms of the most vicious, violent, and predatory criminal networks on earth.
• Arrests for human smuggling increased by 82% since 2014, and an estimated 60% of unaccompanied Latin American children who attempt to cross the border are captured by cartels and abused in child pornography or drug trafficking.

 

BOTTOM LINE: Biden has destroyed the border—President Trump will destroy the cartels.

ICYMI: Agenda47: Ending the Scourge of Drug Addiction in America

Mar-a-Lago, FL—  In a new Agenda47 video, President Trump announced his plan to eradicate the drug addiction crisis in America.

 

“We will not rest until we have ended the drug addiction crisis,” President Trump said. “For three decades before my election, drug overdose deaths increased every single year. Under my leadership, we took the drug and fentanyl crisis head on, and we achieved the first reduction in overdose deaths in more than thirty years.”

 

 

Watch President Trump’s Plan to End the Scourge of Drug Addiction in America

 

President Trump proudly signed the SUPPORT Act—the largest investment EVER in combatting the opioid epidemic.

 

Once President Trump returns to the White House, he will forge new public-private partnerships for companies willing to provide job opportunities and skills training for former addicts and will expand federal support for faith-based counseling, treatment, and recovery programs. 

 

SAVING AMERICAN LIVES: President Trump has pledged that he will not rest until we end this crisis. President Trump will: 

 

- Impose a full naval embargo on the drug cartels and deploy military assets to inflict maximum damage on cartel operations. 

 

- Insist on the full cooperation of neighboring governments to dismantle the trafficking and smuggling networks in our region. 

 

- Ask Congress to ensure that drug dealers and human traffickers receive the death penalty. 

 

- Direct U.S. federal law enforcement to take down the gangs and organized street crime that distribute these deadly narcotics on a local level. 

 

- Permanently designate fentanyl as a federally controlled substance. 

 

- Tell China that if they do not clamp down on the export of fentanyl’s chemical precursors, they will pay a steep price. 

 

- Strengthen the pillars of work, faith, and family which give life meaning and hope for those struggling with addiction. 

 

- Make it easier for those suffering from addiction to seek treatment without losing their jobs.

 

- Forge new public-private partnerships for companies willing to provide job opportunities and skills training to former addicts. 

 

-  Expand federal support for faith-based counseling, treatment, and recovery programs. 

 

-  Ensure that if a parent, child, spouse, or relative needs to take time to care for a family member fighting to overcome addiction, they can take advantage of a family leave program. 

 

ADDRESSING THE DRUG OVERDOSE EPIDEMIC: President Trump’s new plan builds on the historic actions he took during his administration to combat the drug addiction crisis in America. 

 

-  President Trump’s efforts to combat the drug crisis led to the first  reduction  in drug overdose deaths in 30 years. 

 

-  Between 2017 and 2019, drug overdose deaths  declined  by 16.8% in Ohio, 18.7% in Pennsylvania, and 10.6% in West Virginia.  

 

-  Drug overdose deaths  declined  by 15% in New Hampshire between 2017 and 2020.

 

-  Under Biden, overdose deaths in New Hampshire have risen by 12%.  

 

-  In 2017, President Trump  declared  the opioid epidemic a public health emergency and began an all-of-government effort to combat it. 

 

-  President Trump  signed  the SUPPORT Act—the largest investment EVER in combatting the opioid epidemic. 

 

-  By October 2018, President Trump had  secured  $6 billion to fight the epidemic.

 

-  The Trump administration awarded state and local communities a record $9 billion in federal grants to increase access to treatment and prevention services.  

 

-  President Trump provided a fivefold increase in funding to help communities prevent and treat addiction, issuing 8,000 grants to over 1,800 new state and local partners. 

 

-  President Trump launched the Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand to confront the many causes fueling the drug crisis.

 

-  The Trump Administration partnered with the Truth Initiative and Ad Council to launch a media campaign to educate Americans about opioid abuse. The campaign reached 58% of young American adults.

 

-  President Trump  negotiated  a deal with China to crack down on the production and export of fentanyl’s chemical precursors. 

 

-  Under Biden,  cooperation  between China and the U.S. on drug trafficking has nearly come to a halt. 

 

-  During the Trump administration, the Department of Justice prosecuted more fentanyl traffickers than ever before and  dismantled  3,000 drug trafficking organizations.  

 

-  From 2017 to 2019 the Trump Administration oversaw a 34% decrease in total amount of opioids being prescribed across the country.

 

-  The DEA’s National Take Back Days recovered a record 4.7 million pounds of unused prescription drugs. 

 

BIDEN’S FAILURE TO STOP THE DRUG ADDICTION CRISIS: Biden’s reckless open-border policy has allowed deadly drugs to pour into our country, making it impossible to properly combat the drug overdose epidemic. 

 

- President Trump’s hard-won progress on the drug overdose crisis has been squandered because Biden surrendered our southern border to the cartels. 

 

- Hundreds of thousands of pounds of deadly drugs are now pouring across Biden’s wide-open border and claiming the lives of over 100,000 Americans every year. 

 

- Over two-thirds of these deaths  involve  the ultra-lethal fentanyl, which is primarily  smuggled  into our country through Mexico. 

 

- Biden has terminated nearly every one of Trump’s successful border policies, including the end of catch-and-release, Remain in Mexico, Title 42, and Trump-era asylum cooperation agreements. Under Biden, the construction of the wall was halted and interior enforcement has effectively been abolished. 

 

- The amount of fentanyl seized at the border more than  tripled  from 2020 to 2022. 

 

- In the first five months of this year alone, border patrol  seized  enough fentanyl to kill 100 million people. 

 

- Federal agents  estimate  that they are only able to seize 5 to 10 percent of all drugs being smuggled through the border from Mexico. 

 

- Drug cartels and human smugglers are profiting from Biden’s open border,  earning  $13 billion in revenue last year—a 2,500% increase compared to 2018. 

 

-  Fueled in large part by Biden’s border disaster, fentanyl deaths have  increased  94% since 2019, and fentanyl is now the  leading  cause of death for Americans ages 18 to 45. 

 

 

“I was at the @WhiteHouse yesterday with President @realDonaldTrump, HHS @SecAzar and others to discuss vaccine distribution plans and highlight the incredible potential of Operation Warp Speed. Florida looks forward to vaccines being shipped soon!” –  Ron DeSantis , 12/9/20

 

President Trump saved millions of lives, opposed mandates, and embraced the Federalist system to allow States to make the decisions best for their people. Ron DeSantis continues to lie about his record, as he personally oversaw mass vaccinations and imposed radical lockdowns.

 

DeSantis  cracked down  on Florida business that didn’t practice social distancing, 2+ months after President Trump stated, “ the cure cannot be worse than the disease .”

 

DeSantis praised the Covid vaccine’s lifesaving potential, stating, “ These vaccines are saving lives .” Adding, “They are reducing mortality.”

 

According to Christina Pushaw, DeSantis “ speaks positively of vaccines in every public appearance (1600+ times) .”

 

In 2021, it was reported that  DeSantis’ top donor invested  in a monoclonal antibody treatment sold by Regeneron, which was then promoted by DeSantis.

 

In December 2020, DeSantis tweeted his support for the  incredible potential of Operation Warp Speed .

 

 

 

DeSantis’ Real Record On Covid

 

On March 2, 2020, DeSantis issued an executive order directing state Surgeon General Scott Rivkees to  declare a public health emergency in Florida  due to Covid.

 

On March 17, 2020, DeSantis issued an Executive Order that would  reduce density and crowds in restaurants, bars, nightclubs and beaches . He also declared that  Universities should switch to remote  learning for the rest of the spring semester.

 

On March 20, 2020,  DeSantis closed restaurants and gyms . A few days later,  DeSantis asked President Trump to declare Florida a major federal disaster area .

 

DeSantis also  ordered Floridians to quarantine for 14 days . DeSantis set up  checkpoints to quarantine travelers who arrived in Florida.

 

DeSantis  kept open abortion clinics , despite attempts by pro-life groups to close them.

 

DeSantis praised President Trump’s record in Florida during Covid stating that, “ The president's been great for Florida .”

 

In April 2020, DeSantis  praised Trump’s efforts in helping him secure masks  for residents of Florida.

 

DeSantis touted President Trump’s federal loan program  that helped support small business during the pandemic.

 

He also praised President Trump as “outstanding” during the pandemic.

 

On April 18, 2020, DeSantis  ordered all schools to be closed  for the remainder of the year.

 

On April 25, 2020, DeSantis  said he was in no rush to lift restrictions  on Florida’s businesses.

 

In June 2020,  DeSantis urged Florida residents to wear masks while in public .

 

In July 2020,  DeSantis extended the state of emergency  in Florida by an additional 60 days.

 

In September 2020 , DeSantis was seen wearing a mask  outside while greeting President Trump at the airport in Florida.

 

In October 2020,  DeSantis praised  President Trump for the federal government’s response to the pandemic.

 

He also praised Trump’s response to Covid  during an October rally in Tampa.

 

Despite DeSantis’ Attempts To Distance Himself From Fauci, He Praised Him During The Pandemic

 

In March 2020, DeSantis tweeted , “Dr. Birx and Dr. Fauci agree; there is too high a risk that travelers from the NY Tri-State Area have been exposed to #COVID19. I appreciate their support for my executive order requiring such individuals flying into FL to self-quarantine for 14 days.”

 

DeSantis also shared a Covid guide  written by Fauci  and said, “Here is a useful overview of what we know regarding #COVID19, courtesy of Doctors Fauci, Lane and Redfield.”

ICYMI: “Ron DeSantis praised Anthony Fauci for Covid response in spring 2020 for ‘really doing a good job’”

Read the full story by Andrew Kaczynski of CNN here .

President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will arrive on Trump Force One in Detroit, Michigan on Sunday, June 25, 2023, at 4:10PM EDT. He will then speak at the Oakland County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner.

 

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4:10PM EDT

 

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Detroit, MI 48242

 

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One thing is clear: the more people get to know Ron DeSantis, the more they dislike him.

 

Bedminster, NJ—  Since Ron DeSanctimonious announced his candidacy, he has wasted over $15 million just so he can drop into nearly single digits.

 

 

 

In Iowa, DeSantis Super PACs have spent over 4.1 million since January on cable and broadcast television ads since January. 

 

In April, DeSantis  trailed President Trump by 7 points —with 30% support in Iowa. Now,  DeSantis has tumbled to 19% in Iowa , according to recent polling data.

 

 

In New Hampshire, DeSantis Super PACs have doled out over 1.3 million since January on cable and broadcast television ads since January.

 

Ron trailed President Trump by  13 points in March —with 29% support. As of this week, Ron has plummeted to a  whopping 12% support —dropping 17 points in New Hampshire.

 

 

In South Carolina, DeSantis-affiliated Super PACs have spent more than $3.6 million in broadcast and cable television ads since January.

 

In January, DeSantis  trailed President Trump by 10 points —with 28% support among Republican primary voters. By late May—despite a barrage of pro-DeSantis TV ads—Ron had shed nearly a third of his support,  polling at a measly 18%  in The Palmetto State.

 

 

DeSantis Super PACs have spent over $5.1 million in national networks and cable broadcast television ads—only for Ron to continue his  free fall in national polls to an all-time low of 14%  support among Republican primary voters.

ICYMI: “Bill Clinton once lost the nuclear codes for months, and a ‘comedy of errors’ kept anyone from finding out”

Read the full article by Christopher Woody with Business Insider here . 

ICYMI: “Federal prosecutor in Trump probe reprimanded in earlier case for secretly recording defense lawyer”

Read the full article by Addison Smith with Just the News here . 

ICYMI: “Bombshell From 2022: Biden Repeatedly Hinted At Using Legal Means To Prevent Trump’s Potential Return To Power”

Read the full article from Tipp Insights here . 

Bedminster, NJ—  Today, President Donald J. Trump announced his plan to restore executive branch impoundment authority to cut waste, stop inflation, and crush the Deep State.

 

“For 200 years under our system of government, it was undisputed that the President had the Constitutional power to stop unnecessary spending through what is known as Impoundment," President Trump said. 

 

“Very simply, this meant that if Congress provided more funding than was needed to run the government, the President could refuse to waste the extra funds, and instead return the money to the general treasury and maybe even lower your taxes, although we did give you the biggest tax reduction in history, and the biggest regulation reduction in history, two things I am very proud of."

 

 

Watch President Trump’s Plan to Use Impoundment to Slash Waste, Stop Inflation, and Crush Deep State

 

President Trump’s plan will naturally lead the Executive and Legislative Branches to work together to negotiate and gain better control of federal spending.

 

“I will use the president’s long-recognized Impoundment Power to squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy for massive savings. This will be in the form of tax reductions for you. This will help quickly to stop inflation and slash the deficit."

   

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S PLAN TO RESTORE EXECUTIVE BRANCH IMPOUNDMENT AUTHORITY TO CUT WASTE, STOP INFLATION, AND CRUSH THE DEEP STATE

 

PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL RESTORE THE IMPOUNDMENT POWER OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH: 

 

- President Trump will restore the Impoundment Power, reestablishing the balance of power between the Legislative and the Executive branches.

 

- On Day One, President Trump will direct federal agencies to identify portions of their budgets where massive savings are possible through the Impoundment Power, while maintaining the same level of funding for defense, Social Security, and Medicare. 

 

- President Trump will take action to challenge the constitutionality of limits placed on the Impoundment Power by the  Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (CBA) , the source of Congress’s usurpation of Executive Branch powers.

 

- President Trump will also work with Congress to overturn the limits of the CBA.   

 

- In passing the CBA, Congress handcuffed the president from preventing wasteful spending.

 

- The CBA dramatically limited impoundment, the power of the president to choose not to unnecessarily spend taxpayer dollars, forcing the executive branch to spend every penny of congressionally appropriated funds.

 

- Under current law, the president can request rescissions of funds, but those requests must be approved by both houses of Congress. The president can only defer the use of funds in limited instances. 

 

- Leading constitutional scholars agree that impoundment is an inherent power of the president. 

 

- Congress has the “power of the purse,” so its appropriations necessarily set a ceiling on federal spending for a particular purpose, but it should not set the floor. 

 

- Article II of the Constitution vests the president with the inherent authority to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” which has historically been understood to mean that the president can impound funds when doing so allows him to enforce the law more effectively and efficiently. 

 

- In defense of the president’s impoundment power against attacks from Congress, Joseph Sneed, Deputy Attorney General under President Richard Nixon, explained that the use of executive impoundment “to promote fiscal stability is not usurpation; rather it is in the great tradition of checks and balances upon which our Constitution is based.”

 

- Restoring the Impoundment Power will naturally lead the Executive and Legislative Branches to have to work together to negotiate and gain better control of federal spending.

 

- Although Congress has the power to appropriate funds, inherent within the president’s power to execute the law is a measure of discretion on how funds are spent, because spending decisions often depend on how laws are executed in practice. 

 

- The CBA placed crippling burdens on the use of impoundment authority and on the president’s negotiating leverage with Congress over how taxpayer dollars are spent, leaving Congress with virtually unchecked budget authority. 

 

EXECUTIVE BRANCH’S USE OF ITS CONSTITUTIONAL IMPOUNDMENT POWER DATES BACK TO THE EARLIEST DAYS OF THE REPUBLIC:

 

- The Executive Branch Impoundment Power traces its roots to the Jefferson Administration and the earliest days of the American Republic.

 

- In 1803, after France refused the U.S. access to the Port of New Orleans, Congress appropriated funding for 15 gunboats. President Jefferson refused to spend the money after determining that the purchase of the gunboats would jeopardize negotiations with the French. 

 

- In his third annual message to Congress explaining why he had not purchased the gunboats as authorized by Congress, President Jefferson declared that a “favorable and peaceable turn of affairs on the Mississippi rendered an immediate execution of that law unnecessary.” President Jefferson used his power as the Chief Executive to impound congressionally appropriated funds based on his foreign policy and national security judgment that the use of the funds would be unwise and unnecessary. 

 

- For 170 years, from President Jefferson to President Nixon, the chief executive routinely used the Impoundment Power to further national interests. 

 

- In the 19 ^th  century, presidents James Buchanan and Ulysses S. Grant used impoundment in the context of domestic policy to prevent the use of funds to build post offices in Illinois and construct river and harbor improvements. 

 

- Democratic administrations, such as those of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson, also exercised the Impoundment Power. 

 

- Today, the Impoundment Power is regularly used by  43 governors  across the U.S. 

 

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S RESTORATION OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH IMPOUNDMENT POWER WILL BE AN EFFECTIVE TOOL IN FIGHT AGAINST WASTEFUL SPENDING:

 

- Since the CBA, wasteful overspending has exploded out of control. 

 

- Congress has run  deficits  in all but four years since 1974. 

 

- In 1974, the  national debt  was $475 Billion and 31 percent of the GDP. Today, it is $30.8 trillion and 123 percent of the GDP. 

 

- Since the CBA was enacted, the federal debt has never gone below its 1974 level. 

 

- Improper payments, payments made incorrectly by the federal government, cost the U.S.  $247 billion  in 2022. 

 

- The U.S. government has lost nearly  $2.4 trillion  in simple payment errors over the last two decades. 

 

- For 50 years, Congress has used the CBA to force the passage of gigantic, wasteful spending packages. 

 

- Since the CBA, Congress has adopted a  budget resolution  on time only 6 times, missing the deadline by an average of 40 days. 

 

- Congress has almost never met the  CBA deadline  for its 12 annual appropriations bills, often resorting to omnibus spending bills to rush appropriations through. 

 

TRANSCRIPT

 

Crooked Joe Biden, our disgraced president, has wasted trillions of taxpayer dollars in less than three years—causing uncontrolled inflation that is crushing working families. 

 

Reining-in Biden’s wasteful and unnecessary spending is vital to stopping inflation and rescuing our economy from ruin. But the pain of the spending cuts must be borne by the special interests and Washington bureaucrats, NOT by American families and American seniors in particular.

 

For 200 years under our system of government, it was undisputed that the President had the Constitutional power to stop unnecessary spending through what is known as Impoundment. 

 

Very simply, this meant that if Congress provided more funding than was needed to run the government, the President could refuse to waste the extra funds, and instead return the money to the general treasury and maybe even lower your taxes, although we did give you the biggest tax reduction in history, and the biggest regulation reduction in history, two things I am very proud of.  And they still are there, although they are disappearing rapidly under Biden.  

 

Thomas Jefferson famously used this power, as did many other presidents until it was wrongfully curtailed by the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 – not a very good act. This disaster of a law is clearly unconstitutional—a blatant violation of the separation of powers.

 

When I return to the White House, I will do everything I can to challenge the Impoundment Control Act in court, and if necessary, get Congress to overturn it.  We will overturn it. 

 

I will then use the president’s long-recognized Impoundment Power to squeeze the bloated federal bureaucracy for massive savings. This will be in the form of tax reductions for you. This will help quickly to stop inflation and slash the deficit. 

 

To prepare for this eventuality, on Day One, I will order every federal agency to begin identifying large chunks of their budgets that can be saved through efficiencies and waste reduction using Impoundment. 

 

Of course, this will not include national defense and, unlike Ron DeSanctimonious, who doesn’t really know what is happening, I will not lay a finger on Medicare or Social Security. He wants to destroy Social Security and basically obliterate Medicare.  These are benefits for our seniors.  We are not going to touch it. There are many other things we can do. We are not going to let Ron DeSanctus do anything to hurt Medicare or Social Security.  

 

On the contrary, some of the funds we save through Impoundment from other parts of the government can be used to strengthen Medicare and Social Security for years to come.

 

Reasserting the president’s historic Impoundment authority will also restore critical negotiating leverage with Congress to keep spending under control. Very simple. We are going to keep spending under control. 

 

We had it done and then Covid came in and we had to do some things to help save our country. We did a great job. But we were starting to make lots of money. We were Energy Independent. We were going to be Energy Dominant. We were going to be taking in massive amounts of money from the liquid gold that we have under our feet.  More than any other nation.  And we were going to reduce taxes and pay off debt. 

 

This is the ONLY way we will ever return a balanced budget: Impoundment.

 

Just as importantly, bringing back Impoundment will give us a crucial tool with which to obliterate the Deep State, Drain the Swamp, and starve the Warmongers –-- these people that want wars all over the place; killing, killing, killing, they love killing --- and the Globalists out of government. 

 

We are going to get the Warmongers and the Globalists out of our government.

 

With Impoundment, we can simply choke off the money.

 

This policy is anti-inflation, anti-Swamp, anti-globalist—and it’s pro-growth, pro-taxpayer, pro-American, and pro-freedom. 

 

I alone can get that done. I will get it done and Make America Great Again. 

 

Thank you very much.

ICYMI: Truth from President Donald J. Trump