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The President Richard Nixon's impoundments in the early 1970s—which prompted Congress to pass the Impoundment Control Act—totaled approximately how much?

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Nixon withheld approximately $18 billion in appropriated funds—an unprecedented assertion of executive power. Nixon would routinely sign appropriation bills then refuse to spend money for programs he...

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