1、CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Whose Line is it Anyway: Could Congress Give the President a Line-Item Veto? March 27, 2018 In announcing his intention to sign H.R. 1625, the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018,” President Trump, noting hi
2、s concerns over the fiscal size of the bill, called on Congress to provide him with a “line-item veto for all government spending bills.” Two days later, the Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, similarly maintained that Congress “should give the president a line-item veto.” These remarks resu
3、lted in immediate rebukes by several commentators, who, citing the Supreme Courts 1998 ruling in Clinton v. City of New York, argued that the Court already resolved the legality of the line-item veto by striking down such a provision in a 1996 law. At the same time, the Trump Administrations calls f
4、or a line-item veto echo those of other Presidents who sought such authority even after City of New York, under the premise that the invalidated law could be revised to address the Courts objections. Because Congress has not enacted any such proposals, the question remains whether the High Courts 19
