line-item veto
noun
: the power of a government executive to veto specific items in an appropriations bill without vetoing the bill altogether
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This is analytically similar to impoundment: The line-item veto gave the president the unilateral power to cancel specific appropriations — to spend less than Congress instructed the president to.
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Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 18 Feb. 2025
And the Supreme Court upheld congressional spending power in a 1996 decision that ruled it unconstitutional for a president to cancel only one part of a law, also known as a line-item veto.
—Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
Several challenges to the act and executive impoundment have come through the courts, including the 1998 Supreme Court case Clinton v. City of New York that challenged President Clinton's use of a line-item veto to cut funding, the courts have ruled against executive impoundments.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 28 Jan. 2025
The Supreme Court ruled in 1996 that the line-item veto, for presidents to cancel parts of legislation rather than entire laws, was unconstitutional.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
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Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 18 Feb. 2025
And the Supreme Court upheld congressional spending power in a 1996 decision that ruled it unconstitutional for a president to cancel only one part of a law, also known as a line-item veto.
—Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2025
Several challenges to the act and executive impoundment have come through the courts, including the 1998 Supreme Court case Clinton v. City of New York that challenged President Clinton's use of a line-item veto to cut funding, the courts have ruled against executive impoundments.
—Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 28 Jan. 2025
The Supreme Court ruled in 1996 that the line-item veto, for presidents to cancel parts of legislation rather than entire laws, was unconstitutional.
—Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025
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“Line-item veto.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/line-item%20veto. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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