“Impoundment” is a crucial tool that can be used to slash government spending and waste, Ed Martin, president of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles and incoming chief of staff at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily.
Martin spoke at length about how OMB is going to be key to making Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) vision a reality, walking through some of the ways OMB can make a huge difference in President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. One of the crucial tools they have to use, he said, is impoundment.
“We intend to deregulate dramatically… and also we have this thing called impoundment, which Russ Vought [Trump’s nominee for OMB director] is the leading expert on,” he said, explaining that impoundment basically says, “It’s a lie to say that when Congress says spend…
