[GOA]: White House budget office [OMB] violated federal law by withholding Ukraine security funds

The Government Accountability Office said in a report released Thursday that the White House Office of Management and Budget did not have the authority to withhold the money under the federal Impoundment Control Act, which governs Congress' role in the budget process.

"Faithful execution of the law does not permit the president to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law,"  the report says. "OMB withheld funds for a policy [?] reason, which is not permitted" under the law.

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