民主党人将取消拨款的责任归咎于管理和预算办公室主任拉塞尔·沃特，指责他违反了权力分立原则，并削弱了国会的权威。
Democrats are blaming Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought for the canceled funds, accusing him of violating the separation of powers and undermining Congressional authority.
安娜·莫尼梅克/盖蒂图片社北美分社 每年，国会都会通过法律，为联邦政府的各项计划和机构分配资金。特朗普连续第二年拒绝将部分资金拨付至国会指定用途，从而与议员们就谁掌控联邦支出问题爆发新一轮冲突。
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images North America Each year, Congress passes laws which allocate money to the federal government's various programs and agencies. Trump, for the second year in a row, is refusing to send some of that money to the places that Congress says it has to go setting off a fresh battle with lawmakers over who controls federal spending.
根据白宫的一份备忘录，在被扣留的8.1亿美元中，有5.67亿美元来自“为难民、寻求庇护者及其他非公民提供服务的”项目。
Of the $810 million being withheld, $567 million comes from programs that "provided services to refugees, asylees, and other non-citizens," according to a memo from the White House.
政府问责局认为，这种被称为“口袋式撤销”的做法是非法的。政府问责局是一个独立、非党派性的监督机构，负责向联邦机构提供基于事实的信息。
The move, called a pocket rescission, is illegal, according to the Government Accountability Office an independent, non-partisan watchdog agency charged with providing federal agencies fact-based information.
宪法第一条赋予国会征税和决定联邦资金如何使用的权力，这被称为“钱袋权”。如果总统不同意，他或她可以向国会提出取消拨款的请求，但按规定应提前45天通知，以便国会表示同意或反对。
Article 1 of the Constitution gives Congress t he power to levy taxes and decide how federal funds are spent— known as power of the purse. If the president disagrees, he or she can send a request to Congress to cancel the fund, but that is supposed to happen with 45 days notice in order to let Congress agree or disagree.
当总统在未给予国会足够时间发表意见或重新分配资金的情况下决定取消拨款时，就会发生“口袋式撤销”。在距离财政年度结束不到一周之际，这一公告意味着这些资金将未被使用，而国会也无法作出回应。"这是管理和预算办公室（OMB）最近一次试图破坏国会宪法赋予的财政大权，"缅因州共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯写道，她担任参议院拨款委员会主席，该声明发布在 X 平台上。"OMB 是行政部门的一个机构。它无权决定哪些项目值得拨款。"被取消的资金引发了民主党人的愤怒，他们表示 OMB 主任拉塞尔·沃特违反了三权分立原则，削弱了国会权威。"这纯粹是对美国人民的掠夺，"华盛顿州参议员帕蒂·默里在 X 平台上写道，她是参议院拨款委员会的民主党首席议员。"每一位投票支持这些法案的共和党人都应该感到愤怒，因为沃特在表明他们的投票不算数。""唐纳德·特朗普知道无法通过国会实现这些削减，所以他正在通过后门非法实施，"众议院预算委员会民主党首席议员布伦丹·博伊尔众议员在声明中说。"特朗普的行为公然攻击国会宪法赋予的财政大权。"白宫未回应置评请求。
A pocket rescission happens when the president decides to cancel funds without ample time for Congress to weigh in or reallocate the money. With the end of the fiscal year less than a week away, the announcement means the funds will go unspent and Congress can't respond. "This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse," Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who chairs the Senate Appropriations committee, wrote in a statement posted to X. "OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding." The canceled funds are fueling anger from Democrats who say OMB director Russell Vought is violating the separation of powers and undermining Congressional authority. "This is theft from the American people, plain and simple," wrote Washington Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee on X. "Every Republican who voted for these bills should be furious, because Vought is saying their votes don't count." "Donald Trump knows he can't get these cuts through Congress, so he is illegally making them through the back door," Rep. Brendan Boyle, the top Democrat on the House Budget committee, said in a statement. "Trump's actions are a blatant attack on Congress's constitutional power of the purse." The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
政府还表示，它扣留了 1500 万美元原拨给司法部一个团队的资金，该团队负责"预防和解决种族和民族紧张关系、事件及内乱，并恢复种族稳定与和谐"；扣留了 7000 万美元原拨给"提供赠款和奖学金以支持接纳外国学生和教职员工来美学习或任教语言的机构的项目"；以及数千万美元原拨给各类针对气候变化或种族和性别少数群体工作的研究和非营利赠款项目。
The administration also says it withheld $15 million to a Justice Department team tasked with "preventing and resolving racial and ethnic tensions, incidents, and civil disorders, and in restoring racial stability and harmony," $70 million to "programs provide grants and fellowships to support institutions bringing foreign students and faculty to the United States to study or teach language," and tens of millions to various research and non-profit grant programs that target climate change or racial and gender minority work.
政府提供的详细清单可在此处查看
A detailed accounting provided by the administration can be found here