biden as well as that theory that ukraine may have meddled in the election, he placed a hold on aid that would go to ukraine. roughly about a week later a political appointee came in, michael duffey of the office of management and budget. he placed subsequent holds that happened several more times, short-term holds, he continually placed these holds. on august 29th after the story that revealed that aid was withheld that prompted a lot of pushback from the ukrainian government and outrage from the ukrainian government, that mike duffey signs a document that would provide a chunk of funding on a weekly basis to ukraine. but the democrats are contending that this violates federal law because they say the law requires very clearly that when