Thursday, January 16, 2020

GAO: Withholding Ukraine aid is violation of the law

So determined the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office. Will the Repugs in the Senate trial take this into evidence? I know, LOL.

"In the summer of 2019, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) withheld from obligation funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) for security assistance to Ukraine.  Faithful execution of the law does not permit the President to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law. OMB withheld funds for a policy reason, which is not permitted under the Impoundment Control Act (ICA). The withholding was not a programmatic delay. Therefore, we conclude that OMB violated the ICA."

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