美国政府问责局（GAO）周二重申，特朗普总统利用“口袋撤回”手段取消8.1亿美元联邦拨款的做法属于违法。
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reasserted on Tuesday that President Trump’s use of a “pocket rescission” to cancel $810 million in federal funding was unlawful.
这位政府监督机构首席律师埃达·埃马努埃利·佩雷斯在信中依据1974年《扣留控制法》（ICA）指出：“总统于2026年9月25日致国会的特别信函中所含的撤回提案，并不允许总统扣留拨款。”
The letter by the government watchdog’s lead attorney, Edda Emmanuelli Perez, outlined under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (ICA), “the rescission proposals contained in the President’s September 25, 2026, special message to Congress do not permit the President to withhold the appropriations.”
信函继续致国会领导人称：“宪法赋予国会财政大权，国会并未通过《扣留控制法》放弃这一重要权力。《扣留控制法》仅允许暂时扣留预算权限，并规定除非国会撤销相关金额，否则必须使其可用于义务支出。”
“The Constitution vests in Congress the power of the purse, and Congress did not cede this important power through the ICA,” the letter to congressional leaders continued. “The ICA permits only the temporary withholding of budget authority and provides that unless Congress rescinds the amounts at issue, they must be made available for obligation.”
埃马努埃利·佩雷斯写道，特朗普在拨款到期后仍扣留已拨款项，“破坏了制定联邦法律的宪法程序和国会的宪法财政大权。”佩雷斯补充道：“总统不得强行使国会已批准且未予撤销的预算权限失效。”
Emmanuelli Perez wrote that Trump’s withholding of appropriated funds beyond its expiration date, “subverts both the constitutional process for enacting federal law and Congress’s constitutional power of the purse.”“The President may not force the expiration of budget authority Congress has already enacted and did not rescind,” Perez added.
特朗普的撤回行动主要切断了对卫生与公众服务部（HHS）服务于无证移民和法院监护下无人陪伴儿童项目的资助。
Trump’s cancellation halted funding primarily to Health and Human Services (HHS) programs serving undocumented immigrants and unaccompanied children in court.
他利用了有争议的“口袋撤回”程序，即总统在财政年度结束（9月30日）前夕要求国会取消已批准的拨款，从而冻结资金，导致其极有可能永远无法被支出。
He utilized the controversial “pocket rescission” process which occurs when a president asks Congress to cancel already approved funding close to the conclusion of the fiscal year, which ends on Sept. 30, putting a hold on the money so it’s unlikely to ever be spent.
去年特朗普首次使用该程序取消对外援助时，政府问责局已认定其不合法，但值得注意的是并未提起诉讼。
The GAO already found last year, when Trump first used the process to cancel foreign aid, that it was not legal but notably did not file a lawsuit.
最高法院在2025年允许特朗普使用“口袋撤销”，当时表示政府“在这个早期阶段”已充分证明该诉讼根据《冻结控制法》（ICA）被排除，原告不能强迫联邦政府支付资金。
The Supreme Court allowed Trump to use a “pocket rescission” in 2025, saying at the time that the government “at this early stage” made sufficient showing that the lawsuit is precluded under the ICA and that the plaintiffs cannot force the federal government to pay the funds.
管理和预算办公室（OMB）主任拉塞尔·沃特周二在社交媒体上回应政府问责局（GAO）报告，称这“并不令人意外”。
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought responded to the GAO report on social media Tuesday, saying it was “not a surprise.”
“政府问责局已变得极度党派化，国会最近因此试图削减其经费，”他写道。沃特指责政府问责局“根据民主党人是否在白宫”来改变其对此问题的立场。当被要求置评时，白宫将《国会山报》引向沃特的声明。
“GAO has become hyper partisan and Congress recently attempted to cut their spending because of it,” he wrote. Vought accused the GAO of changing its opinion on the issue “based on whether Democrats are in the White House.”When asked for comment, the White House directed The Hill to Vought’s statement.
当该提案宣布时，参议院拨款委员会主席、缅因州共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯几乎立即表态，称该过程“非法”。参院拨款委员会的其他共和党人也呼应了她的观点，他们正与柯林斯合作对抗这些撤销，并可能在下一组拨款法案中加入针对该程序的防护措施。
When the proposal was announced, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), chair of the Senate Appropriations, almost immediately weighed in, calling the process “unlawful.”Her opinions were echoed by other Republicans on the Senate Appropriations committee who are working with Collins to fight the rescissions and potentially include guardrails against the process in the next set of appropriations bills.