Former United States President Donald Trump proposed Tuesday to restore presidential power in order to seize appropriated public funds with Congress to reduce spending in the country.
“For 200 years the president had the right to block unnecessary spending and return the funds directly to the Treasury,” Trump declared during a Republican women’s event in the state of New Hampshire.
The former president specified that in this way “the bulky federal bureaucracy” would decrease, and the public debt would be reduced.
The measure proposed by Trump has been at the center of a political debate since the country almost went into default at the beginning of the month due to the refusal of some Republicans to raise the debt ceiling.
Finally, the White House reached an agreement with the Republicans in the House of Representatives to suspend the legal limit of public debt for two years.
However, some more conservative representatives have criticized the agreement, arguing that it is not strong enough.
The White House, until 1974, had the power to seize public funds, but the US Congress eliminated
In his speech on Tuesday, Trump repeated some of his usual accusations against the Justice Department and the US government, accusing them of persecuting him for being the main adversary of Joe Biden.
The former president did not refer to recordings issued Monday in statements to CNN, which showed him acknowledging that he had in his possession at least one classified document from 2023, which he could have declassified when he was in the White House, but did not, reported the EFE agency.
In the audio it seems to corroborate that the former president knew that he should not keep classified documents in his house in Mar-a-Lago, a case that led him to appear on June 13 in a court in Miami, with the accusation of 37 related criminal charges. with the handling of secret documents.
Likewise, the former president criticized his main rival in the Republican primaries, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, whose advantage has been greater to win the Republican party’s nomination for the elections.