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by rsfinn 1541 days ago
President Clinton was briefly given this power by the Line Item Veto Act of 1996 [1], but "its effect was brief as the act was soon [in 1998] ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court".

[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Item_Veto_Act_of_1996>