The president’s war on oversight won’t extend to the non-partisan Government Accountability Office, which is planning to investigate the administration’s response to the pandemic and the $2 trillion Congressional rescue package
of another who’d been tasked with overseeing a $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package. But when it comes to that sweeping legislation signed into law last month, there’s at least one watchdog he won’t be able to elude entirely.
Trump has always resisted any kind of checks and balances on his power, and has taken some of his most dramatic steps yet to remove them since being acquitted by the Senate in January—first by purging officials who testified against him, then by sacking, the IG who deemed the whistleblower complaint about his efforts to strong-arm Ukraine credible.
Of course, it’s unclear how much it will matter if the office indeed finds fault in his and his administration’s handling of the crisis; itsthat the White House broke the law in holding back aid to Ukraine seemed to confirm what Democrats had concluded when they impeached Trump last year, but that conclusion didn’t matter to the Republicans who ultimately acquitted him. For now, at least, it seems likely that any findings from the GAO are likely to be digested in similarly partisan terms.
over his response to it, an independent accounting could highlight known shortcomings and bring others to light— something that could haunt him when he answers to voters this fall.
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