KEVIN FREKING，华盛顿——白宫周五宣布，总统唐纳德·特朗普正在取消国会批准的近10亿美元支出，并动用一项罕见且存在争议的权力，终止用于移民服务和多样性相关计划的资金。
KEVIN FREKING WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is canceling nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, the White House announced on Friday, using a rare and contested power to axe funding for immigrant services and diversity-focused initiatives.
特朗普政府的管理和预算办公室称，此次资金削减针对的是“最有害的政府开支”。共和党参议员苏珊·科林斯谴责了此举。她正在经历一场艰难的连任竞选，同时担任参议院拨款委员会主席。
Trump’s Office of Management and Budget described the funding cut as focused on “the most harmful government spending.” Trump’s move was condemned by Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican in a tough re-election campaign and chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
科林斯在一份声明中说，这一行动事先没有发出警告，也未进行协商。她还说，将与同事一道处理“这些非法行为”。
Collins said in a statement that the action came without warning or consultation. She also said she would work to address with colleagues “these illegal actions.”
“推迟拨付本身就是一种未向国会报告的资金扣留行为，这不仅是如此，而且也篡夺了国会的拨款权，”科林斯说。“管理和预算办公室是行政部门的机构，不能由它来决定哪些项目值得获得资金。”通常，国会可以在总统提出的支出削减生效前对其进行审查。但特朗普在联邦财政年度仅剩五天时宣布这些削减，使国会几乎无法进行审查。政府问责局称，这种被称为“口袋式撤销拨款”的做法是非法的。
“Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress’s appropriations powers,” Collins said. “OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.” Typically, Congress can review the president’s proposed spending cuts before they take effect. But Trump made that all but impossible by announcing them with just five days left in the federal fiscal year. The Government Accountability Office says the maneuver, known as a “pocket rescission,” is illegal.
科林斯称，这是管理和预算办公室最新一次试图“破坏国会的宪法财政权力”。
Collins called it the latest attempt by OMB to “undermine Congress’s Constitutional power of the purse.”