Republicans are taking aim at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) after lawmakers say it injected politics into its role in favor of Democrats.
Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration have targeted the GAO in recent weeks as the agency stands to issue findings on dozens of Trump administration freezes on federal spending. Republicans say the mission of the GAO has been corrupted by politics and the agency has sacrificed its integrity make favorable rulings for Democrats.
“Just so we are all clear over the next several months. The Government Accountability Office or GAO is a quasi-independent arm of the legislative branch that played a partisan role in the first-term impeachment hoax,” said Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, in a Friday post on X.
The GAO had just issued a finding that the Department of Transportation lacks authority…
