The Trump administration violated the law by withholding $214 million in security assistance to Ukraine in the summer of 2019, according to a legal opinion by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office.
“Today, GAO issued a legal decision concluding that the Office of Management and Budget violated the law when it withheld approximately $214 million appropriated to DOD for security assistance to Ukraine,” GAO General Counsel Thomas Armstrong said in a written statement Thursday.
“OMB [Office of Management and Budget] told GAO that it withheld the funds to ensure that they were not spent ‘in a manner that could conflict with the President’s …read more
Source:: The Daily Signal
