White House budget director Russ Vought on Friday slammed the Government Accountability Office as playing "a partisan role in the first-term impeachment hoax" after the GAO said the Transportation Department's pause on funding for a Biden administration electric-vehicle charging program is illegal.
"Just so we are all clear over the next several months. The Government Accountability Office or GAO is a quasi-independent arm of the legislative branch that played a partisan role in the first-term impeachment hoax," Vought said in a post on X.
"They are going to call everything an impoundment because they want to grind our work to manage taxpayer dollars effectively to a halt. These are non-events with no consequence. Rearview mirror stuff."
The GAO said the pause was illegal under the 1974 law restricting a president's ability to block or "impound" money appropriated by Congress.
"An appropriations act is a law like any other; therefore, unless Congress has enacted a law providing otherwise, the president must take care to ensure that appropriations are prudently obligated during their period of availability," the GAO report stated. "DOT is not authorized under the ICA to withhold these funds from expenditure."
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