SCOTUS Made Ending the Shutdown HarderPassing a budget the President can ignore creates a dilemma. Trump claims the power to “impound” funds, meaning that he will not spend money that has been appropriated by Congress. If he could cancel the foreign aid spending Congress authorized, as the Court just indicated he can, why couldn’t he cancel anything else the legislators agree to? That implication of the justices’ decision means we may be in for a very long shutdown. Indeed, this is why I agree with my co-blogger Steven Taylor that the Democrats have chosen an Ill-Conceived Shutdown Strategy.