White House Mulls New Ways to Seize Spending Power

“The White House is considering challenging the constitutionality of a 50-year-old law limiting the president’s control over federal spending, easing the firing of civil servants, curbing pay and reining in independent agencies,” Bloomberg reports.

“The ideas, detailed in a slide presentation labeled ‘confidential,’ outline the ways President Donald Trump’s administration could try to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and its workforce — though it’s unclear whether the president has the legal authority to carry out the suggested actions.”