Senate GOP seeks ruling on Biden limits on border wall funding
Source: The Hill
A group of 40 Republican senators is asking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to step in and limit President Biden's ability to halt construction of the border wall.
Biden did so with an executive order on his first day in office, freezing nearly $1.4 billion in funds Congress set aside for the wall.
But lawmakers say the move infringes on Congress's power of the purse, requesting a legal opinion from GAO.
"An appropriations act is a law like any other; therefore, the president must take care to ensure that appropriations are prudently obligated in the manner they were provided by Congress," lawmakers wrote in a letter spearheaded by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.).
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Didn't Trump get wall funding by declaring an emergency thus taking funds from the military? I don't believe Congress ever appropriated funds for the wall.
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