{"id":2065,"date":"2020-01-20T16:33:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T16:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2065"},"modified":"2020-01-20T16:33:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T16:33:22","slug":"trumps-hold-of-ukraine-aid-was-illegal-according-to-the-us-governments-top-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2065","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s hold of Ukraine aid was illegal, according to the US government\u2019s top watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;In a legal opinion released Thursday, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) found the Office of Management and Budget\u2019s (OMB) decision to keep $400 million in Pentagon assistance to Ukraine for a \u201cpolicy reason\u201d in violation of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/budget.house.gov\/publications\/report\/impoundment-control-act-1974-what-it-why-does-it-matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Impoundment Control Act of 1974<\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That law was designed to \u201cprevent the President and other government officials from unilaterally substituting their own funding decisions for those of the Congress,\u201d according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/budget.house.gov\/publications\/report\/impoundment-control-act-1974-what-it-why-does-it-matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">House Budget Committee<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/1\/16\/21068705\/gao-report-ukraine-aid-impeachment-trump\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/1\/16\/21068705\/gao-report-ukraine-aid-impeachment-trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In a legal opinion released Thursday, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) found the Office of Management and Budget\u2019s (OMB) decision to keep $400 million in Pentagon assistance to Ukraine for a \u201cpolicy reason\u201d in violation of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974.<\/p>\n<p>That law was designed to \u201cprevent the President and other government officials from unilaterally substituting their own funding decisions for those of the Congress,\u201d according to the House Budget Committee.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[312,308,124,310,125,309,170,311],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-assistance","tag-gao","tag-illegal","tag-impoundment-control-act-of-1974","tag-legal","tag-omb","tag-trump","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2066,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}