Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Thanks to a continuing resolution that passed Congress last week, the government is currently operating under fiscal year 2024 spending levels, but without any specifications on how that money is to be spent. There’s a lump sum available for the Department of Education, for example. But there isn’t any specificity concerning how much of the education budget must go to Title I spending for low-income students, or IDEA spending for schooling students with disabilities, or student loan servicing costs, or anything else. Any of that can be shifted, repurposed, zeroed out in one program and reallocated elsewhere by the Trump administration, as long as the total amount of spending does not exceed the appropriated total. At the same time, numerous legal groups, states, unions for federal workers, and others are entrenched in litigation over whether the Trump administration is illegally firing workers, canceling programs, and shuttering entire agencies of the government.” (03/19/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-03-19-government-funding-law-damages-legal-pushback-on-trump/