Posted on 04/30/2021 9:25:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former Trump administration lawyer Mark Paoletta told House Budget Committee ranking member Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) Thursday that the Joe Biden administration violated the Impoundment Control Act by withholding federal funds for the border wall.
A veteran of Washington’s political battles, Paoletta served as general counsel of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the powerful White House agency in charge of all federal budgeting, spending, and regulatory actions. Now a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America, he testified before the House Budget Committee’s hearing, “Protecting our Democracy: Reasserting Congress’ Power of the Purse.”
During the hearing, Smith and Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) asked Paoletta about the Biden administration’s withholding of federal funds appropriated to construct the wall along the southern border. Biden froze border wall funds on his first day in office.
Congress enacted the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (ICA) to prevent the president and other government officials from unilaterally substituting their own funding decisions from those of Congress.
Before the ICA, presidents routinely declined to spend all of an appropriated sum if they could complete Congress’s goal for less than the full amount. The ICA makes it illegal to do so unless Congress passes a new law — called a rescission — taking back the remaining funds.
Smith asked Paoletta, “Do you believe that the executive branch violated the GAO standard of the Impoundment Control Act when it began withholding funds for the border wall?”
Paoletta responded, “100 percent.”
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Comment from the white hut” “Federal law? Bwahahahahahaha!”
being a RAT means never having to obey the law...
He and his regime do not care about ANY law, except the fake ones they make up.
IMPEACH!!!!! Oh wait,that was Trump.
Joe, as do all Presidents, swore an oath to uphold the laws. So, can we impeach him now?
Wishful thinking.
Yeah? So what?
You think this is the 1980s? We are now living under an authoritarian junta and they don’t even have to pretend to follow written law anymore. And their DOJ and the courts will back them up.
Get used to it.
Laws don’t apply to liberals. They should, but apparently we don’t have enough Republicans in congress to seriously hold liberals accountable
We need to STOP CALLING THEM ‘LIBERALS’.
They are not the ‘liberals’ of yesteryear.
They are FULL ON, NO HOLDS BARRED, OUTRIGHT COMMUNISTS!........................
I said he had no authority from the moment he did it.
High crimes. File impeachment charges, never mind they won’t pass. File ‘em anyway, every time Xiden breaks the law.
So, where is the “Republican” opposition ???
Yeah so?
Republicans:...................................(crickets chirping)...........
There is no law or order anymore.
The US is a Mess , everyone Joe picks is a Chinese Spy
The Democrat Party, by it’s very nature is a criminal organization.
There was never a time that liberals were ever pro-American.
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