[PREMIERING 9PM ET] Trump Plan To Bypass Congress And Starve ‘The Deep State’: Nixon’s Playbook

In a massive new policy proposal that he called ‘Agenda 47’, President Trump laid out his plan to restore a little known presidential power which was quite literally lost about 50 years ago.

Specifically, this is the executive power known as impoundment – something that President Nixon (while he was embroiled in the Watergate scandal) signed away.

This was a power that was used as far back as the days of Thomas Jefferson, allowing the office of the President of the United States to limit the amount of money that is spent by the federal government.

President Trump is saying that the signing away of that authority was unconstitutional. He would attempt to regain that authority for the executive office. And then, once it was regained, he would use it to fight the “deep state”, as well as to curb the federal bureaucracy.