Bombshell! Hardly.
Key objection: "Faithful execution of the law does not permit the President to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law."
True, but to some extent every President is guilty of this. Obama was a past master at this.
Key objection: "Faithful execution of the law does not permit the President to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law."
True, but to some extent every President is guilty of this. Obama was a past master at this.
From the same GAO:
"Just for the sake of argument, let’s assume that GAO is correct now. Wouldn’t the logic of this decision also apply to Vice President Joe Biden’s famous withholding of Ukraine aid until the local prosecutor investigating his son’s company was fired?" -- Wall St. Journal
"Traditionally GAO does its best to serve its congressional bosses. This is not a swipe at these particular swamp dwellers. But the Supreme Court has explicitly found that GAO is subservient to the legislative branch. The 1986 decision is called Bowsher v. Synar." -- WSJ
The so-called ‘nonpartisan’ GAO’s bureaucrats are represented by the AFL-CIO’s Int'l Federation of Professional & Technical Engineers whose PAC in 2016 gave 100% of its donations to Democrats and 0% to Republicans. This creature of Congress is a perfect example of the swamp.
