Dear Friends:
If you saw a problem with handing out 2 trillion dollars for pandemic relief then read this: "Lawmakers handed President Donald Trump $2 trillion in coronavirus relief — and then left town without activating any of the powerful new oversight tools meant to hold his administration accountable." (This was mostly a Republican plot to let Drumpf spend all sorts of cash... anyway he saw fit!)
Hell, he might have even used some of the money for his Mexican "wall" or to bail out his personal hotels and golf courses............ and nobody would be the wiser!
Fortunately, the U.S. government is not totally corrupt........ yet!
Even as Trump has gone to war against internal watchdogs in his administration, the Government Accountability Office remains largely out of the president’s grasp because of its home in the legislative branch.
But with little fanfare, Congress’ independent, in-house watchdog is preparing a blizzard of audits that will become the first wide-ranging check on Trump’s handling of the sprawling national rescue effort.
The GAO has quickly taken advantage of its perch, exploring the early missteps inherent in launching a multitrillion-dollar law that touches every facet of American life.
By the end of April, at least 30 CARES Act reviews and audits — "engagements," per GAO lingo — are expected to be underway, according to interviews with senior investigators.
Yes kids....., at a time when Trump has sought to undermine nearly every independent review of his administration’s conduct, the GAO is likely to dispatch most of its 3,000 investigators, experts and analysts into an arena that could make it a target for the president’s fury. And its quiet early work could soon become very loud: The office is required under the new law to brief Congress every month and issue a bimonthly public report on its findings.
If you saw a problem with handing out 2 trillion dollars for pandemic relief then read this: "Lawmakers handed President Donald Trump $2 trillion in coronavirus relief — and then left town without activating any of the powerful new oversight tools meant to hold his administration accountable." (This was mostly a Republican plot to let Drumpf spend all sorts of cash... anyway he saw fit!)
Hell, he might have even used some of the money for his Mexican "wall" or to bail out his personal hotels and golf courses............ and nobody would be the wiser!
Fortunately, the U.S. government is not totally corrupt........ yet!
Even as Trump has gone to war against internal watchdogs in his administration, the Government Accountability Office remains largely out of the president’s grasp because of its home in the legislative branch.
But with little fanfare, Congress’ independent, in-house watchdog is preparing a blizzard of audits that will become the first wide-ranging check on Trump’s handling of the sprawling national rescue effort.
The GAO has quickly taken advantage of its perch, exploring the early missteps inherent in launching a multitrillion-dollar law that touches every facet of American life.
By the end of April, at least 30 CARES Act reviews and audits — "engagements," per GAO lingo — are expected to be underway, according to interviews with senior investigators.
Yes kids....., at a time when Trump has sought to undermine nearly every independent review of his administration’s conduct, the GAO is likely to dispatch most of its 3,000 investigators, experts and analysts into an arena that could make it a target for the president’s fury. And its quiet early work could soon become very loud: The office is required under the new law to brief Congress every month and issue a bimonthly public report on its findings.
Trump has already tangled with the GAO during the most perilous moment of his presidency, and the agency does face some hurdles in investigating him.
The office probed his decision to delay $400 million in military aid to Ukraine and found that he violated the law by failing to inform Congress of the move. It was a politically explosive finding even if Republicans largely ignored it during the impeachment trial.
GAO also noted that the White House budget office and State Department were largely uncooperative in the probe — and the administration could impose similar limitations in its coronavirus work.
What sort of a tin-pot dictatorship is the United States when Drumpf spends all his time trying to engage in various (criminal) activities..... and the government (The Legislative) tries to stop him (The Executive) and the Republican party from dismantling the Judicial arm of power!
The way I see it anyway!
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