[Opinion] Trump Budget Czar Thumbs Nose At ‘Partisan’ Watchdog Over Impoundment Allegation

GOP Budget Would Make It Even Harder to Hold Trump Administration in Contempt

One Senate Democrat called it “a slap in the face to the concept of separation of powers.”

Trump Budget Czar Thumbs Nose At ‘Partisan’ Watchdog Over Impoundment Allegation

White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought on Friday morning slammed a Congressional watchdog’s opinion which had suggested that the Trump administration violated the law by withholding congressionally appropriated money from a Biden-era electric vehicle (EV) charging program. The Government Accountability Office (GAO), an nonpartisan, independent agency that assists Congress, issued a non-binding ruling […] Trump Budget Cz…