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BY MIRANDA GREEN - 09/05/19 04:39 PM EDT
A top government watchdog says the Trump administration violated the law when it used funds taken from park entrance fees to keep national parks open during this year's partial government shutdown.
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded in its investigation released Thursday that the Interior Department and National Park Service (NPS) violated the AntiDeficiency Act and the purpose statute by using congressional funds to pay government workers to clean park bathrooms and maintain sites when part of the federal government was shuttered during the record-long shutdown.
Interior disregarded not only the laws themselves but also the congressional prerogatives that underlie them. Instead of carrying out the law, Interior improperly imposed its own will, Thomas Armstrong, GAO general counsel, wrote in his 16-page legal opinion ...
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/460151-federal-watchdog-trump-admin-broke-law-by-pulling-from-park
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)And Comeys and McCabes...
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,010 posts)Eugene
(61,899 posts)Interior: You don't have all the facts.
Congress: Why won't you hand over the documents we requested?
Interior: *silence*