Posted on 01/16/2020 10:42:45 AM PST by blueyon
The White House violated the law by temporarily withholding U.S. military aid to Ukraine, said a Government Accountability Office report published on Thursday.
“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 eight-page watchdog report read. “Faithful execution of the law does not permit the President to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law. OMB withheld funds for a policy reason, which is not permitted under the Impoundment Control Act (ICA). The withholding was not a programmatic delay. Therefore, we conclude that OMB violated the ICA,” it concluded.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
I would order any communication from the House to OMB be turned over to the senate.
rktman ( #My2ndAmend! -—— Enlisted in the Navy in ‘67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
Thanks for your service. Both my folks were in WWII. It saddens me to think about all those who served including our forefathers who sacrificed so much just to have these reprobates ruining our country.
I thought Trump gave Ukraine every penny of aid it was promised - and all within the time prescribed by the law.
If so, what are these clowns going on about?
There is far far more to the Ukraine/Burisima scheme than the Bidden connection...... for thought.
Burisma was a holding tank with a pipe to the Ukraine money pot. From Burisma, there was a valve controlling the flow and a large diameter pipeline. Corporate directors and their lawyers operate the numerous valves
From that point the plumbing becomes a very complex interconnection of manifolds with smaller valves connected to smaller diameter pipes that connect to banks scattered all over. There might be a concentration of small pipes leading to banks and corporations in say Switzerland or Lichtenstein or Panama.
Those banks say Barclays or DeutschBank or a Swiss boutique bank in Zurich hold the accounts of holding companies with downstream small diameter valves and pipes to yet other corporations.
If we select a person, Barack Obama or his daughter, they would bill a designated company for some service and receive money in a bank issued to that bank account in say the Cayman Islands. These days, that money transfer is likely electronic with no actual paper check.
Both Barack and his daughter have Mastercards issued by the offshore bank used to make purchases within the boundaries of the USA. Monthly on standing direction, the bank pays the outstanding MasterCard bill from funds on foreign deposit. The money never actually travels to the USA. Rather, debits and credits are made on bank ledgers located who knows where.
In the case of Malia, Michelle would direct her offshore lawyer to fax (perhaps e mail) her Cayman Islands company to arrange a payment by certified check from the US branch of the Cayman Islands bank in the amount of her semesters tuition directly to the university bursar.
At every valve there is a lawyer
It may also be that Burisma being an international corporation may also have an inlet pipeline connected to pipes with a money flows from outside the Ukraine.
For instance, there might be pipes connected via various banks and pipes and valves to the us treasury. That is, money from the treasury appropriated for shovel ready jobs in say Philadelphia or green energy in Soylandra could flow to the Burisma holding tank for distribution.
The President knows and understands all the mechanism. The DOJ likely has what amounts to PID’s,Piping and Instrumentation Drawings, of the vast corruption array.
The Democrats and their Iranian allies know that and are doing their dam-nest to get rid of him
Another arm of the Deep State outed by this outrageous action. Non-partisan my ass! Fire them all!
Their beginning is their end.
It doesn’t make any difference why he did it, the fact is it was done. Unless they have a witness who heard the president say he only released it because he was caught, they have nothing.
“Gene L. Dodaro became the eighth Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on December 22, 2010, when he was confirmed by the United States Senate. He was nominated by President Obama in September of 2010 from a list of candidates selected by a bipartisan, bicameral congressional commission. . .Mr. Dodaro is married to the former Joan McCabe and has three adult children. : U.S. Government Accountability Office
DODARO, JOAN MCCABEhas given $1,000 to 2 different filers spanning 2 years: $1,000, Democratic Party : FollowTheMoney.org”
Outstanding bit of info Thanks
Theu had to give hypnotist time to convince Christine Blasey Ford that she now also remembers overhearing Trump saying he knows he is guilty of everything wrong about Ukraine.
She will come into the trial in the Senate from the back of the room Tuesday with Schiff and Nadler each holding an arm to support her while Pelosi offers a lace handkerchief to the brave but sobbing witness.
No she had to wait on the custom order pens from Vista Print. That is why they delayed, but yea, they will Mfg things thru this whole trial.
Spread FUD (fear uncertainty and doubt) into whole the legit the process is. Was it a made up charge, or was it a cover up. Kept her base insane, and knocks GOP of their message by having to explain things to totally corrupt biased media.
While low-info voters who check into the process come Sept for Nov are already saying enough with the TDS. I am sick of it.
So do they dump Trump, or do they look at their wallets and ask ‘what have you done for ME lately?’
Hey... at least these government “workers” are doing something other than watching porn and computing their retirement funds.
Agreed- just citing the line the lying left are gonna take- they have already tried that in their scam impeachment
The GOP is at a crossroads. They are running out of chances to finally use all the tools at their disposal to stop the termites from destroying the nation's political and cultural foundations.
TOP story on Fox’s website, trying to make it look true, too?
Why yes, yes they are. Family has been serving since the revolution. The first one. :-) Kids, grandkids, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, dad, father in law, bro in law....... You’re welcome.
I just sent this email to contact@gao.gov:
Your obviously bias opinion regarding the LAWFULL temporary withholding of my money to a questionable government as aid is not appreciated. Like the idiot dems in the house your part in this attempted coup is not going unnoticed and will only ensure our great President Trump will be re-elected, so thanks for that. I would suggest that you begin preparing for early retirement though.
Really. Then so did O’Dumbo. But why no outrage then?
Is that the best they can do? Dems are so boring.
Wake me up when a court concludes it’s a violation.
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