So any president can now come into office, object to certain programs previously passed by Congress, stop funding those programs and then lay off the workers involved, effectively killing off the programs the president doesn’t like? Sounds sort of like a president wielding a line-item veto, post-passage of a law. … Is it my imagination, or isn’t this the power that SCOTUS just bestowed upon the president? … I get the idea behind clipping the wings of lower-court judges. I really do. But I’m with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on this one. The nation’s high court is allowing a president to effectively proceed with “the dismantling of much of the federal government as Congress has created it.”