The Government Accountability Office released a report Thursday on the White House temporarily withholding U.S. security aid from Ukraine, an issue at the center of the Democrats’ impeachment campaign. In substituting the president’s personal policy priorities for those of Congress, the report concludes, the White House violated the Impoundment Control Act.
“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,” the 8-page report signed by General Counsel Thomas H. Armstrong, begins. “In order to withhold the funds, OMB issued a series of nine apportionment schedules with footnotes that made all unobligated balances unavailable for obligation.”
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