The White House is moving forward with what’s called a pocket rescission, to unilaterally claw back more than $800 million in spending that Congress has already appropriated.
The funding would have gone towards services for refugees and immigrant students, health research and more.
Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Eric McDaniel, NPR congressional reporter.
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