The Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Tuesday announced it had decided that the Biden administration’s ending of wall construction at the southern border does not violate the law, after Republicans had called for the agency to weigh in.
Capito, in a statement issued with Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said the GAO decision"makes clear that there are two sets of rules when it comes to executing funds appropriated by Congress: one for Democrat administrations and one for Republican administrations."
"While disappointing, GAO’s decision does not change two critical facts: there is a crisis on the southern border and it is getting worse; and Congress—on a bipartisan basis—appropriated funding to build a wall, which the U.S. Border Patrol has long said is needed to help stop illegal immigration," they wrote."We hope our colleagues in Congress recognize this overreach by the executive branch and don’t excuse it just because they are in the same political party.
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