The OMB’s first official action to withhold $250M in Pentagon aid to Ukraine came on the evening of July 25, the same day Pres. Trump and the Ukrainian President spoke on the phone, according to a House Budget Committee summary of the office’s documents
That withholding letter, which was among documents provided to the committee, was signed by a career Office of Management and Budget official, the summary states. But the next month, OMB political appointee Michael Duffey signed letters taking over the decision to withhold both the Pentagon and State Department aid to Ukraine from the career official.
This is the same old spin from Democrats."Trump spoke to Zelensky the morning of July 25 around 9 a.m. ET. Laura Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian affairs, testified before Congress that that afternoon there were three interactions from her staff on that indicate the Ukrainian government was aware there was an issue with US aid to the country.An email from the State Department that Cooper said came through at 2:31 p.m.
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