Trump revives rare bud­get maneu­ver to rescind $810M in con­gres­sion­al­ly approved funds

The Trump admin­is­tra­tion announced Fri­day that it was can­cel­ing $810 mil­lion in con­gres­sion­al­ly approved spend­ing for pro­grams serv­ing ille­gal immi­grants, diver­si­ty ini­tia­tives and oth­er efforts the admin­is­tra­tion argued do not ben­e­fit Amer­i­can citizens.To claw back the funds, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump used a “pock­et rescis­sion,” a bud­get maneu­ver the exec­u­tive branch con­tends is with­in its author­i­ty but that Con­gress and the Gov­ern­ment Account­abil­i­ty Office (GAO) say exceeds the pres­i­den­t’s authority.The vast major­i­ty of the cuts, some $567 mil­lion, were aimed at Health and Human Ser­vices pro­grams that pro­vid­ed fund­ing to non-gov­ern­ment orga­ni­za­tions sup­port­ing refugees, asylees and oth­er non-citizens.The White House is also seek­ing to rescind $25 mil­lion for edu­ca­tion pro­grams for migrant stu­dents, claim­ing they sup­port­ed things such as “an …