{"id":673517,"date":"2025-08-29T10:08:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=673517"},"modified":"2025-08-29T10:08:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T14:08:51","slug":"legally-debated-experts-say-trumps-midnight-move-is-first-step-toward-a-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=673517","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Legally debated&#8217;: Experts say Trump&#8217;s &#8216;midnight&#8217; move is &#8216;first step toward a shut down&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The conservative New York Post reported in a &#8220;midnight scoop&#8221; that Trump had scrapped $5 billion in foreign aid in a &#8220;rare&#8221; action called a &#8220;pocket rescission.&#8221; According to Post reporter Steven Nelson,<em> it is a &#8220;legally debated maneuver that hasn&#8217;t been used in 48 years.&#8221;<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>Punchbowl News founder Jake Sherman flagged the news over night going into Friday, saying, &#8220;This would be the first step toward a shutdown next month.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/politics\/legally-debated-experts-say-trump-s-midnight-move-is-first-step-toward-a-shut-down\/ar-AA1LtHBh?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=LCTS&amp;cvid=68b1b24cc3af4ca4b475bdcadb950138&amp;ei=12\">https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-ca\/news\/politics\/legally-debated-experts-say-trump-s-midnight-move-is-first-step-toward-a-shut-down\/ar-AA1LtHBh?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conservative New York Post reported in a &#8220;midnight scoop&#8221; that Trump had scrapped $5 billion in foreign aid in a &#8220;rare&#8221; action called a &#8220;pocket rescission.&#8221; According to Post reporter Steven Nelson, it is a &#8220;legally debated maneuver that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=673517\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673518,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673517\/revisions\/673518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}