Eloise Pasachoff

1 month ago | lawfaremedia.org | Molly Reynolds |Matt Lawrence |Eloise Pasachoff |Zachary Price

In today’s episode, Molly Reynolds, Senior Fellow at Brookings and Senior Editor at Lawfare, sits down with Matt Lawrence, Associate Professor of Law at Emory; Eloise Pasachoff, Professor of Law at Georgetown; and Zach Price, Professor of Law at UC Law San Francisco to discuss a new paper on “Appropriations Presidentialism,” or how the executive branch attempts to control the process of allocating federal funds at the expense of Congress.

Mar 6, 2025 | lawfaremedia.org | Quinta Jurecic |Molly Reynolds |Eloise Pasachoff |Jen Patja

Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With In the first weeks of the second Trump administration, the Office of Management and Budget abruptly froze trillions of dollars in federal funds—sparking a crisis over impoundment, the executive branch’s assertion of authority to refuse to distribute money appropriated by Congress.