President Biden on Sunday sent a letter to Congress leaders reversing President Trump
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Trump had acted, with less than a week to end his term, to freeze billions in federal funds using a budget maneuver called termination.
“I am withdrawing 73 termination proposals that were previously transmitted to Congress,” Biden said in the letter.
The 73 budget cuts that Trump had called for were spread across almost all cabinet-level agencies and mostly aligned with his proposed cuts to domestic program spending in the 2021 federal budget that were rejected by Congress.
Trump had sent a letter to the Congressional leadership on January 14 calling for terminations, including to the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Fund for the Arts and Humanities and the Peace Corps.
Several Democrats in Congress, including the House President Rosa DeLauro
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The former president had previously signed the $ 2.3 trillion government financing bill in December, which included the latest relief package COVID-19, but expressed dissatisfaction, saying he would ask for the removal of “useless items” “.