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Capito says influx of migrant kids at U.S. border is a crisis and President Biden is to blame By March 17, 2021 - 12:04 pm CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A group of 40 U.S. senators, with U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) leading the way, are asking if President Joe Biden violated the law with his steps, soon after taking office, to suspend funding and construction of the southern U.S. border wall. “In the weeks that followed, operational control of our southern border was compromised and a humanitarian and national security crisis has ensued,” the senators wrote in a letter to GAO Com...

March 17, 2021 Last Congress, many Democrats, including Rep. John Yarmuth, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, claimed the Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) broke the law when it paused the obligation of funds to Ukraine for 50 days to determine the best use for them. On the very first day of his administration, however, President Biden directed that funding specifically appropriated to build the wall along the southern border be paused for 60 days to determine how best to spend those funds. Press reports indicate that all funding for the wall construction...

Trump Tries Impoundment Control Act To Cut Spending   The shutdown is averted, COVID relief and unemployment relief is assured, but President Trump is not done yet. In the waning days of his adminstration, President Trump has been pushing for the COVID relief bill to include a bigger direct payment – to the point of threatening to veto the whole kit and caboodle (not just the National Defense Authorization Act) in order to make a point about getting more of the pork stripped out and money into the hands of the American people. If Trump was going to be staying in the White House, this wh...

After that another official whose name is redacted. i'm aware of one individual in the budgets review office who expressed concerns. were those concerns expressed to you? yes. question, okay, and who was that individual at brd? answer, name was redacted. what did that redacted person's name tell you? >> she made a general comment that reflected a concern about the apportionments. her control was vis-a-vis the impoundment control. once congress has allocated these funds, the president cannot hold them up. the president was trying to

>> sir, i am not a lawyer, but that approximates my understanding of the provision of the impoundment control. >> i'll go with that approximates. thank you. i yield back the balance of my time. >> as paul harvey said, here is the rest of the story. my colleague failed to put certain issues with respect to the certification. dod certification was not corrupt large throughout ukraine but on institution reforms and combat capability. is that correct, miss cooper? >> that's correct, sir. >> thank you for being here. i appreciate that. my colleague read it when he reread your statement but left off...