House Democrats accused the White House budget office of 'a pattern of abuse' in halting $400M in crucial aid to Ukraine this summer
House Democrats on Tuesday accused the White House budget office of "a pattern of abuse" in halting $400 million in crucial aid to Ukraine this summer, as Democrats released a timeline of executive actions that they say ran afoul of congressional spending powers.
An OMB spokesperson dismissed the charge, saying in a statement that the agency “has and will continue to use its apportionment authority to ensure taxpayer dollars are properly spent consistent with the President’s priorities and with the law. This is the same old spin from Democrats.” But the chronology released Tuesday by the House Budget and Appropriations committees — which comes after Yarmuth and Lowey demanded answers from OMB in September on the Ukraine aid freeze — still offers several points of interest. The House Budget Committee released only a summary of the documents provided by OMB, noting the agency failed to turn over the bulk of requested material.
House spending leaders said the decision to remove career staff from the apportionment process is “unprecedented” and “a troubling deviation from long-standing procedures.” OMB has previously asserted that there was nothing unusual or improper about, and that the decision had nothing to do with the career staff concerns that the hold was not legal.
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