[freeandfreezing]

You are correct. And there are an infinite number of reasons why the Executive Branch might delay a transfer of funds, or a payment. Under the GAO interpretation it seems like an Executive Branch official would be unable to delay a payment that funds had been appropriated for to a vendor.

So, as an example, it appears that if some government supplier made a batch of defective parts and the contracting officer declined to pay the invoice then that would be illegal. But that is an absurd interpretation of the law, and surely wrong.

The GAO report is just another example of how corrupt and partisan many parts of the government have become.

[txnativegop]

and ever last gov’t employee who does things like this should fired without their pension. The people who work with those people who said nothing should be transferred to the shyttiest post imaginable.