Trump’s allies want more White House control over Congress’s purse strings

House GOP allies with President-elect Donald Trump want him to take more control of the Congressional process next year.

Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., introduced a bill Monday that would end a measure that forces the president to direct the federal government to spend the full amount of money appropriated by Congress each year.

Clyde told Fox News Digital on Thursday that he plans to introduce the bill in the next Congress, where Republicans control the House, Senate and White House — and that the issue is already being discussed in Trump’s rally.

“That was a topic that was brought up” with Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk when they were on Capitol Hill earlier this month to discuss the Department of Public Works, Clyde said.

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“They agree with it, because how can you be efficient and not have the ability to cut spending? You can’t.”

He also told a small group of reporters earlier this month that Trump Office Of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought “is very much on board with this.”

The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 was passed during the Nixon administration and is intended to stop the president from having a say in government spending.

Currently, the president must get congressional approval to withdraw any funding earmarked for a particular year. The funds in question may be held for up to 45 days while the application is being processed.

“I think that authority is very important for the president to exercise,” Clyde said. “Since Congress introduced that act, you’ve seen spending go up and up. And that’s not good for our country.”

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Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., is leading the charge to repeal the Landfill Control Act. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Clyde’s bill would repeal the Impoundment Control Act. A related bill was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.

Clyde said more than a dozen House Republicans support his bill.

Musk and Ramaswamy recommended that Trump have more authority to cut subsidies in an op-ed published by the Wall Street Journal last month, after the president-elect tapped them to lead an advisory panel on cutting government waste.

The Georgia Republican acknowledged that the bill has long been at odds in the current Democrat-controlled Senate and with one week left in the congressional term, but said he will “definitely introduce it” in the next Congress.

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Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, opposes the idea. (Getty Images)

He described Monday’s introduction as “putting down the flag, saying ‘Hey, this is an authority that the president should be able to exercise without any restrictions, and we’re going to help.’

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However, the issue may fall on party lines. Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee, responded to Musk and Ramaswamy’s op-ed by calling their views “as idiotic as they are dangerous.”

“Cutting private appropriations by our elected representatives in Congress would be a power grab that would destroy our economy and put families and communities at risk,” Boyle said in a statement.