The House passed the spending bill which gives Trump the power of the purse strings

Hey Everyone!

I was doing some digging into the recent budget bill which was passed by the House today (Now moving onto the Senate) which has some strange new language inside of it.

"(b) If a sequestration is ordered by the President under section 254 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the spending, expenditure, or operating plan required by this section shall reflect such sequestration."

This is then followed by 35 Departments and Agencies, saying that Trump can sequester all of these agencies. Section 254 of the Act it mentions seems to just state, in layman's terms, that if the President finds that the spending won't meet the deficit, he can sequester the funds to what he sees fit so that the deficit is made.

I'm not a lawyer, but if I'm reading this correctly, this seems like Republicans are giving Trump the full access to the purse strings of all 35 of these agencies. What are all your thoughts on this? Is this giving Trump full control to regulate the spending of these departments and agencies?

Below is a link to the statement inside the Budget bill, as well as a link to the Act of 1985.

Spending Bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1968/text#H5094ACCE85114405A0C246A0A78FB473

Act of 1985(Page 22): https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-16284/pdf/COMPS-16284.pdf