参议员罗恩·约翰逊（共和党，威斯康星州）阻挠了这项法案的通过，这意味着特朗普政府将成功撤销那些被其视为“浪费性支出”的资金。周三，民主党参议员试图阻止唐纳德·特朗普总统收回国会批准的8.1亿美元资金，但他们的努力被这位共和党参议员给破坏了。
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) blocked the effort, meaning the Trump administration will succeed in eliminating the funding it deemed “wasteful.”Senate Democrats’ attempt to bar President Donald Trump from clawing back $810 million in funding approved by Congress was blocked by a Republican senator on Wednesday. Democratic Sens.
民主党参议员帕蒂·默里（华盛顿州）和杰夫·默克利（俄勒冈州）提出了一项法案，旨在阻止特朗普政府削减那些由国会批准的拨款项目，这些项目包括移民服务、气候变化应对措施以及少数族裔群体的民权保护等相关项目。
Patty Murray (Washington) and Jeff Merkley (Oregon) sought to pass a bill that would have blocked the Trump administration from cutting congressionally approved funding for several programs, including those for immigrant services, climate change and civil rights for minority groups, among others.
“特朗普正在拿走我们双方都同意、并已签署成为法律的拨款资金；现在他却在随意撤销那些他不喜欢的项目，”默里在周三晚上的参议院会议上说道。
“Trump is taking the bipartisan funding that we passed, funding the Democrats and Republicans agreed on that he signed into law, and he’s now ripping out the pages he doesn’t like,” Murray said on the Senate floor Wednesday evening.
默克利试图通过“全体一致同意”的程序来推动该法案的通过，但这一快速通过程序可以被任何一位参议员否决。最终，罗恩·约翰逊的反对导致该法案未能通过。
Merkley attempted to pass the measure through unanimous consent, an expedited process that can be killed by any one senator objecting. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) objected, ending the effort.
根据《扣押控制法案》（Impoundment Control Act），国会通常必须批准白宫提出的资金削减或支出拒绝请求。然而，由于特朗普政府在9月30日财政年度结束前几天才提交这一请求，他们实际上采用了所谓的“自行决定资金使用权”的手段（即“口袋撤销”政策），从而暂时冻结了这些资金的使用。这样一来，国会将没有足够的时间来强制政府使用这些拨款。
Under the Impoundment Control Act, Congress normally must approve White House requests for rescissions — or refusals to spend money appropriated by Congress. But by submitting the request just days before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, the Trump administration is employing what’s known as a “pocket rescission,” essentially freezing the money until the deadline to spend the appropriated funds passes, so Congress will not have enough time to try to force the money to be spent.
约翰逊为特朗普的这一做法辩护，他表示自己支持削减开支。他还指出，虽然《扣押控制法案》在资金削减的具体操作上存在一些模糊之处，但他认为默里和默克利的法案只会让情况变得更加复杂。
Johnson defended Trump’s pocket rescission, as he said he favors reducing spending. He also said that while the Impoundment Control Act leaves some ambiguity around rescissions, he sees Merkley and Murray’s bill as making matters worse.
“国会制定了一部既糟糕又难以解读的法律，这本不该让任何人感到意外，”约翰逊说，“这件事恐怕最终要由最高法院来裁决。俄勒冈州参议员提出的修改方案肯定无法解决问题。”这是白宫第二次采取临时撤销拨款的做法。特朗普去年曾利用这一手段，取消50亿美元的对外援助资金。
“It shouldn’t surprise anybody that Congress wrote an awful law that’s hard to interpret,” Johnson said. “It’ll probably have to be all sorted out by the Supreme Court. The modification that the senator from Oregon is proposing certainly wouldn’t fix it.”This is the second time the White House has done a pocket rescission. Trump used the maneuver last year to eliminate $5 billion in funding for foreign aid.
最高法院准许了特朗普2025年的临时撤销拨款决定继续执行，不过其依据是总统对外交事务拥有广泛的监督权。特朗普最新一轮资金削减与去年有所不同，因为这些削减在很大程度上影响了国内支出。今年白宫削减的资金包括：白宫称，卫生与公众服务部将被削减5.67亿美元，这些资金“此前曾用于支持非法移民项目，以及为难民、寻求庇护者和其他非公民提供服务的非政府组织”。司法部一个负责处理社区中涉及种族、性别、性取向或其他受保护群体相关纠纷的机构也将被削减1500万美元。
The Supreme Court allowed Trump’s 2025 pocket rescission to proceed, though its justification hinged on the president’s wide-ranging authority to oversee foreign affairs. Trump’s latest cuts differ from last year’s, because they largely impact domestic spending. This year,some ofthe White House’s cuts include: $567 million for the Department of Health and Human Services, which the White House said “previously went to pro-illegal immigration programs and Non-Governmental Organizations that provided services to refugees, asylees, and other non-citizens.” $15 million from a Justice Department agency designed to address conflicts in communities relating to disputes based on race, gender, sexual orientation or other protected groups.
政府还将削减被视为“浪费”的医疗和研究项目资金共计2800万美元，其中包括旨在减少碳排放的项目以及与性别转换医疗有关的研究等。
$28 million for health and research programs that the administration deemed “wasteful,” including programs aimed to reduce carbon emissions and research related to gender transition care, among other cuts.
政府的临时撤销拨款做法招致了两党人士的反对。两党的参议院拨款委员会成员认为，政府的决定绕过了国会的财政权，也将增加协商两党政府拨款法案的难度。
The administration’s pocket recessions have drawn bipartisan backlash. Senate appropriators from both parties argued that the administration’s decision circumvents Congress’s power of the purse and will make it harder to negotiate bipartisan government funding bills.
无党派机构政府问责局此前曾表示，临时撤销拨款属于违法行为。默里和默克利周三推动推进的一项法案，将禁止任何总统在资金预定到期前不足90天时提交撤销拨款请求。
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office has previously said that pocket rescissions are illegal. The bill Murray and Merkley sought to advance on Wednesday would have banned any president from submitting rescission requests less than 90 days before the funds are slated to expire.
尽管多位共和党参议院拨款委员会成员对政府使用口袋撤销权表达了担忧，但对于今后如何解决这一问题，并未形成明确共识。
While multiple Republican Senate appropriators expressed concerns about the administration’s use of pocket rescissions, there was no clear consensus on how to address the issue moving forward.
参议院拨款委员会主席、缅因州共和党人苏珊·柯林斯建议，厘清这一做法合法性的途径之一可能是诉诸法院，并表示政府问责局可以起诉政府。阿拉斯加州共和党参议员丽莎·穆尔科斯基表示，议员们可以在2027财年拨款法案中加入明确禁止口袋撤销权的措辞。
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Susan Collins (R-Maine) suggested that one wayto achieve clarity on the legality of the practice might be the courts, and said GAO could sue the administration. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said lawmakers could add language to fiscal year 2027 appropriations bills that explicitly prevent pocket rescissions.
参议院拨款委员会首席民主党人默里表示，民主党人曾希望在国会本月早些时候通过的临时政府拨款法案中加入一项条款，禁止政府使用口袋撤销权，但共和党人拒绝了。
Murray, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said that Democrats wanted a provision to bar the administration from pocket rescissions included in the temporary stopgap government funding bill that Congress passed earlier this month, but Republicans refused.