Legislative vs Executive Branch
Yes, you are correct on a micro scale. I was talking more broadly.
If Congress appropriates a ton of money for OSHA the pres and his staff can slow walk it to death or change the rules. Selective enforcement. Etc. Like having mick mulvanney run two branches and gut the CFPB.
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Yes they can. They can impeach.
Impoundment is an act by a President of the United States of not spending money that has been appropriated by the U.S. Congress. Thomas Jefferson was the first president to exercise the power of impoundment in 1801. The power was available to all presidents up to and including Richard Nixon, and was regarded as a power inherent to the office. The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 was passed in response to perceived abuse of the power under President Nixon. Title X of the Act removed that power, and Train v. City of New York (whose facts predate the 1974 Act, but which was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court after its passage), closed potential loopholes in the 1974 Act. The president's ability to indefinitely reject congressionally approved spending was thus removed.[/QUOTE]