line-item veto

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They craft the state budget and have a line-item veto to eliminate legislative appropriations.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Kelly’s line-item veto leaves in place $5 million for school safety grants but deletes specific wording that she said would have essentially converted the program “into a no-bid contract” by eliminating “nearly all potential competition.”

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024

At the time, Abbott's office defended his line-item veto and his request to review agency rules as measures that were within his constitutional authority.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2022

A line-item veto is a type of veto that keeps the majority of a spending bill unaltered but nullifies certain lines of spending within it.

From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021

Senator Mattingly has introduced a bill permitting a 2-year trial run of the line-item veto.

From State of the Union Address by Reagan, Ronald