The White House budget office is flouting investigators as the nation’s top watchdog pursues 39 probes into President Donald Trump’s widespread funding freezes, the head of the Government Accountability Office said Tuesday.
The Office of Management and Budget “has not been responsive” to GAO’s questions about the freezing of billions of dollars in funding Congress already approved, and EPA has also been uncooperative, U.S. Comptroller General Gene Dodaro told senators Tuesday morning.
The watchdog is empowered by law to investigate whether federal agencies are illegally “impounding” money, as it has done in cases like Trump’s freezing in 2019 of aid to Ukraine that fueled his first impeachment.
“We can only be as efficient as we can get the information from the agencies,” Dodaro told Senate appropriators during a hearing about his agency’s budget.
