The GAO's Absurd Accusation

The idea that impounding Ukrainian aid for FOUR DAYS is a crime is ludicrous, and yet another example of a supposedly “nonpartisan” agency playing politics.

by Rod D. Martin & Matt Wilson
January 16, 2020

The GAO’s accusation that impounding Ukrainian aid for FOUR DAYS is a crime is absolutely ludicrous, and yet another example of a supposedly “nonpartisan” agency playing politics. 

Matt Wilson explains below why this supposed impoundment isn’t a crime. I would suggest that FOUR DAYS isn’t even an impoundment.

But more importantly, I believe this is a legitimate question for the courts, as is the assertion of Executive Privilege which the Democrats are disingenuously calling “Obstruction of Congress” (whatever that’s supposed to mean), because...

... the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 is a grossly unconstitutional infringement on the powers of the Executive Branch.

Now you may disagree. And you might be right.

But what is certain is that the Act increases one Branch’s power and at the expense of a co-equal Branch, and attempts to take away a right Presidents had exercised and everyone had believed constitutional since George Washington.

If Washi…