So far, under Vought’s direction in the second term, the president has illegally frozen, canceled, or terminated hundreds of billions of dollars meant for Head Start, FEMA, libraries, after-school care, medical research, AIDS prevention, the Smithsonian, infrastructure grants in states that didn’t vote for Trump, refugee assistance programs, and dozens of other purposes."

She also pointed to a maneuver known as a pocket rescission, in which the White House asks Congress to cancel already approved funding so late in the fiscal year that the money expires before lawmakers can act. Vought has pulled it off twice with a Republican Congress going along.