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Senior White House budget official Mark Sandy is set to testify today to House impeachment investigators about his knowledge of President Trump's decision to halt nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine

A senior White House budget official appeared for testimony Saturday morning before House impeachment investigators — a significant crack in President Donald Trump’s firewall that has prevented Democrats from learning critical details about the decision to freeze nearly $400 million of military aid to Ukraine.

on an all-out blockade by the White House Office of Management and Budget, which has fought relentlessly to spurn requests and subpoenas seeking documents and witness testimony.

David Holmes, the political counsel at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv who was on the July 18 video conference, told investigators late Friday that NSC officials “could not determine the cause of the hold or how to lift it.” Holmes and Cooper, among other witnesses who were present,that the OMB official said acting White House chief of staff had placed the hold and that it had been ordered by the president.

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