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Follow GOLF<p><a href="https://www.fogolf.com/1017118/trumps-trip-to-scotland-reopens-old-wounds-for-some-of-his-neighbors/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fogolf.com/1017118/trumps-trip</span><span class="invisible">-to-scotland-reopens-old-wounds-for-some-of-his-neighbors/</span></a> Trump’s trip to Scotland reopens old wounds for some of his neighbors <a href="https://vive.im/tags/article" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>article</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/ArticlePlus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArticlePlus</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Branch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Branch</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Court</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Donald" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Donald</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/executive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>executive</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Golf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Golf</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/GolfNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GolfNews</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/of" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>of</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/plus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plus</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scotland</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/states" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>states</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/supreme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>supreme</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/SupremeCourtOfTheUnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourtOfTheUnitedStates</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/The" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>The</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/united" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>united</span></a></p>
Follow GOLF<p><a href="https://www.fogolf.com/1016377/protests-trade-talks-and-a-new-golf-course/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fogolf.com/1016377/protests-tr</span><span class="invisible">ade-talks-and-a-new-golf-course/</span></a> Protests, trade talks and a new golf course <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Branch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Branch</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/championship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>championship</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Charles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Charles</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Donald" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Donald</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Elizabeth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Elizabeth</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/ElizabethII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElizabethII</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/executive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>executive</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Golf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Golf</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/GolfNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GolfNews</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/II" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>II</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/III" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>III</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/King" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>King</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/KingCharlesIII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KingCharlesIII</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Kingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kingdom</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/NEUTRAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NEUTRAL</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/open" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>open</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/overall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>overall</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/OverallNeutral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OverallNeutral</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/Prince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prince</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/PrinceWilliam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrinceWilliam</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scotland</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/The" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>The</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/TheOpenChampionship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheOpenChampionship</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/united" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>united</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdom</span></a> <a href="https://vive.im/tags/William" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>William</span></a></p>
Alan Lewis<p>: <a href="https://c.im/tags/abuseofpower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abuseofpower</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democrats</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/eightysix47" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eightysix47</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/executivebranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>executivebranch</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/johnroberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>johnroberts</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/johnrobertsmagatribunal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>johnrobertsmagatribunal</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/supremecourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>supremecourt</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/unitedstatessupremecourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>unitedstatessupremecourt</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/uspolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspolitics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ussupremecourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ussupremecourt</span></a> :</p><p>THE JOHN ROBERTS MAGA TRIBUNAL, FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT, HAS NO PROBLEM WITH ABUSE OF POWER, JUST AS LONG AS IT IS PRACTICED BY THE FEDERAL EXECUTIVE BRANCH<br>Mastodon Post</p><p>Eightysix47</p>
Nonilex<p>“They don’t want any <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accountability</span></a>,” said Representative Rosa DeLauro, the Connecticut Democrat who leads her party on the chamber’s Appropriations Committee. “They’re annoyed the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GAO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GAO</span></a> found the White House is stealing funds from taxpayers. That is the only plausible explanation for this.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>House</span></a> bill would also block the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accountability</span></a> office from suing the government to force the release of frozen funds, unless Dodaro &amp; his successors obtain congressional support. That could make it harder for the office to conduct <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/oversight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oversight</span></a> of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, though <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Senate</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> have not targeted the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GAO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GAO</span></a> as part of their own appropriations bill for 2026. A spox for Valadao did not respond to a request for comment.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>House</span></a> measure, if passed, could force the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accountability</span></a> office to reduce its staff by at least 2,200 people, acc/to an estimate that the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GAO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GAO</span></a> furnished to lawmakers in June. The office warned that the cut would leave it unable to do work sought by both parties to uncover federal waste.</p><p>“It would have, if that were to happen, grave &amp; pervasive effects on our services to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a>,” Dodaro said in an interview.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>In contrast, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>House</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> in June proposed to strike nearly $400 million from the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GAO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GAO</span></a>’s budget as part of a larger *spending* measure for next fiscal year. Its author, Rep David Valadao (R-CA), framed it in June as part of a broader crackdown on “unnecessary spending” in the legislative branch. But <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a> appeared to offer another explanation on social media, writing: “Maybe GAO shouldn’t be partisan.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>On Monday, a federal <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>court</span></a> ruled — in a case brought by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicInterest</span></a> groups — that the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin had illegally disabled the website.</p><p>While the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GAO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GAO</span></a> is a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legislative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legislative</span></a> agency, its leader is appointed by the president based on a set of recommendations from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a>, then confirmed by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Senate</span></a>. It is a unique structure, which <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Paoletta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paoletta</span></a> described in 2024 as “clearly unconstitutional,” arguing that it limits whom the president may choose.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The next month, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Paoletta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paoletta</span></a> told a federal agency directly that it should “pay no heed whatsoever to GAO’s conclusions, as they are incorrect” on the matter of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/impoundment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>impoundment</span></a>. Paoletta said the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GAO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GAO</span></a> took an overly broad view of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a>, &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> could legally withhold money temporarily “to determine the most appropriate use of the funds” [nope].</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The GAO’s findings coincided with a set of lawsuits challenging the interruption of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/federal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>federal</span></a> dollars, including a new case filed last week by a coalition of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/states" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>states</span></a> affected by the slowdown in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicSchool</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>funding</span></a>. Dodaro, who has served at <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GAO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GAO</span></a> in some capacity for more than 50 years, said the primary issue is not the specific money that has been withheld but “the process” the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> admin used to do so.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Eloise Pasachoff, a professor at Georgetown University’s law school who has studied the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GAO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GAO</span></a>, said it was “not created as a partisan body.” She added that it has primarily been “an evenhanded evaluator of how both programs work &amp; spending works.”</p><p>The office has long worked to identify trillions of dollars in savings, an effort lauded by both parties that long preceded <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> &amp; his *cost-cutting* operation known as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOGE</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>At the center of the battle is the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GAO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GAO</span></a>, which <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> created in 1921 &amp; expanded about a half-century later. Lawmakers at the time looked to assert themselves against the White House, after President Richard M. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Nixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nixon</span></a> repeatedly defied their instructions on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/spending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spending</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>But <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a>, who overwhelmingly opposed the clawbacks, previously estimated that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> continues to impede more than $400B in additional spending without <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a>’ approval. That includes &gt;$5 billion in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicSchool</span></a> funds that the White House halted in July, according to lawmakers.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Under the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a>, that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> is afforded to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a>. But <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a> have sought to reconfigure the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/budget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>budget</span></a> on the *premise* that they have expansive authority to act on their own, a position echoed by some <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> in Congress [only when they’re in power].</p><p>Last week, Republicans approved a set of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/spending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spending</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/cuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cuts</span></a> formally sought by the White House, revoking $9B in enacted funding for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicBroadcasting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicBroadcasting</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ForeignAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForeignAid</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Dodaro also stressed that his team had a “well-established tradition of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/nonpartisanship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonpartisanship</span></a>, despite allegations to the contrary,” as a defender of congressional interests.</p><p>“The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> &amp; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration have a very expansive view of the president’s authority,” he said. “We have a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/statutory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>statutory</span></a> responsibility to protect the prerogative of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> &amp; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> of the purse.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Gene Dodaro, the comptroller general in charge of the office, stressed that the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GAO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GAO</span></a> is “not itching to go to court,” adding that “no decisions” have been made. He said his office would “continue to give thought” to what might prompt a lawsuit, even as he acknowledged the fact that “<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> isn’t somewhat unified behind” his group’s work.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>Under existing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a>, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accountability</span></a> office may sue to force a president to release illegally withheld funds. In a sign of the seriousness surrounding <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s recent spending moves, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GAO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GAO</span></a> said in May it would retain outside counsel that could assist in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/litigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>litigation</span></a>, acc/to correspondence viewed by NYT. Trump’s top aides have previously said the office is prohibited by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> from challenging the president in this way [wrong].</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>And <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>House</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> have recently proposed enfeebling their own <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/watchdog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>watchdog</span></a>. Party lawmakers unveiled <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legislation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legislation</span></a> to halve the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GAO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GAO</span></a>’s budget for next fiscal year, potentially decimating its staff while stripping away some of its <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> to oversee <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/spending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spending</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a>, the White House <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/budget" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>budget</span></a> director, has strenuously denied any wrongdoing, arguing that the admin seeks to manage taxpayer dollars more effectively. He &amp; his deputies have also initiated a series of attacks on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GAO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GAO</span></a>, deriding it as partisan [ridiculous] &amp; publicly refusing to comply w/some of its investigations.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>The inquiries concern the White House’s handling of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ForeignAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForeignAid</span></a>, such as money for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>, along with <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> investments, including funds for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/wind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wind</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a> &amp; clean school buses, acc/to internal documents from June viewed by NYT. The admin’s treatment of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/grants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grants</span></a>, such as those for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NIH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NIH</span></a> &amp; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/childcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>childcare</span></a> program known as <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HeadStart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeadStart</span></a>, are also being investigated, the documents show.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ExecutiveBranch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExecutiveBranch</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AbuseOfPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuseOfPower</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RussVought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RussVought</span></a></p>
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