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Support for Government Accountability Shouldn't Be a Casualty of Impeachment Drama

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Support for Government Accountability Shouldn't Be a Casualty of Impeachment Drama

February 14, 2020

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This article was authored by Lincoln Network head of policy Zach Graves and Fix the System co-founder Nilmini Rubin.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) usually works hard to avoid political controversy. But the agency’s recent legal decision vaulted the nonpartisan agency into the center of impeachment politics. The GAO asserted that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) violated the law when it withheld millions in funding from the Department of Defense that Congress appropriated for security aid authorized by the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI).

Read the rest of the article at The Hill.

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