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Executive Branch Control Of Federal Grants: Policy, Pork, And Punishment, Eloise Pasachoff
Executive Branch Control Of Federal Grants: Policy, Pork, And Punishment, Eloise Pasachoff
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High-profile controversies in each of the last several administrations have involved the extent of Executive Branch control over federal grants. These challenges were particularly pronounced during the Trump Administration, when it seemed that each month brought a new grant-related controversy, from the opening week’s attempts to withhold funding from sanctuary cities to the last months’ effort to deny funding to “anarchist” jurisdictions. The aftermath of the Trump Administration thus provides an important opportunity to assess the bounds of Executive Branch control over federal grants writ large. In doing so, this Article makes three contributions. First, as a descriptive matter, it …