(01-29-2020, 09:51 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote:

(01-29-2020, 09:41 PM)mikesez Wrote: 1) OMB is the executive branch. Congress was not notified.  They are supposed to be notified as soon as the original day for the money to be spent passes.  When Congress is notified, the news finds out too. I believe the aid was supposed to be spent in May.  Trump didn't want the hold to be in the news.

2) the whistleblower story hit the news September 9 or 10.  Classic "hand caught in the cookie jar" move.

1. Have you cited the law that requires the President to notify Congress? You may have but I haven’t seen it. Also, you can’t speak to Trump’s motives so that last sentence shouldn’t be treated as fact.

Yes, it is the impoundment control act, section X.  This is what the emails back and forth between NSA and OMB were worried about. The ordinary employees in those two agencies deal with this law all the time.  Their manager told them not to disburse the funds, but they were worried because ordinarily there's a public notification for that.  They were worried that the manager was making a mistake and someone might lose their job.

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