President Biden sent a letter to congressional leaders on Sunday to invest the former President TrumpDonald Trump: Kelli Ward Rejects Arizona GOP Race Audit Request for Gun Sales Rises Amid Pandemic Uncertainty, Biden Votes for Gun Reform Prosecution Lawyer of Trump, Bowers, leaves the teamThe last-minute attempt to freeze $ 27.4 billion in government programs.
Trump had moved, with less than a week to go to end his term, to freeze the billions in federal funding through a budget maneuver called termination.
“I withdraw 73 resignation proposals previously submitted to Congress,” Biden said in the letter.
The 73 budget cuts Trump had called for were handed out to almost every agency at the cabinet level and aligned mostly with his proposed cuts to the 2021 federal budget’s internal program spending that were rejected by Congress.
Trump had sent a letter to Congress address on Jan. 14 calling for the resignations, including the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities and the Peace Corps.
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The former president had previously signed a $ 2.3 trillion government funding bill in December, which included the latest COVID-19 relief package, but had expressed dissatisfaction, saying he would call for them to be withdrawn. ” wasteful items “.