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They were taken to a makeshift processing center in Bakersfield, and the car was eventually impounded.

But that effort was likely an opening salvo in what the administration hopes will be a broad test of whether the Court would allow the president to impound congressionally-appropriated funds.

Trump had said during the campaign that he planned to challenge the laws that prohibit the president from impounding or refusing to spend money that had been appropriated by Congress.

City of New York, that the president requires Congress’s approval to impound funds, Trump and his allies have insisted that the president enjoys broad powers of impoundment.

It’s true that earlier presidents tried to impound funds, but their right to do so was often disputed.