The Government Accountability Office is reviewing whether or not the Trump administration violated any congressional appropriations laws by failing to formally inform Congress about its decision to freeze military aid to Ukraine.
The Government Accountability Office is reviewing whether or not the Trump administration violated any congressional appropriations laws by failing to formally inform Congress about its decision freeze military aid to Ukraine.Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.
"If you could just get back to me on whether you agree, and number two, what's our recourse as a Congress if they don't do it," Van Hollen asked Dadaro. Nonetheless, the decision under review, namely, to freeze aid to Ukraine, is at the center of the House impeachment inquiry, making it difficult to separate the review from the deep partisan divisions underlying the impeachment probe itself.inquiry is examining whether military aid to Ukraine was conditioned on Ukraine agreeing to Trump's request that Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky
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