Hofstra Law Professor James Sample spoke with Newsday on the impact of President Donald Trump’s executive orders on states.
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One of the other ways the Trump administration has tried to implement its policies and directives is by taking aim at funding. The administration has threatened to withhold education funding for schools and universities that fail to eliminate their diversity initiatives. Trump administration officials have also floated tying transportation funding to birth rates.
But the president doesn’t have the power to withhold funding that’s already been allocated by Congress, said James Sample, a professor of constitutional law at Hofstra University.
The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the “power of the purse,” he said.
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