Two OMB officials resigned voicing concerns over Ukraine aid hold, official testifies
Mark Sandy, a career official at the White House Office of Management and Budget, revealed the resignations in testimony to impeachment investigators
By Erica Werner
November 26, 2019 at 5:56 p.m. EST
Two officials at the White House Office of Management and Budget recently resigned while voicing concerns over the holdup on Ukraine aid, a career employee of the agency told impeachment investigators, according to a transcript of his testimony released Tuesday.
Mark Sandy, the only OMB official to testify in the impeachment inquiry, did not name the employees in question. He said one worked in the OMB legal division and described that person as having a “dissenting opinion” about how the security assistance to Ukraine could be held up in light of the Impoundment Control Act, which limits the ability of the executive branch to change spending decisions already made by Congress.
The other person, who resigned in September, “expressed some frustrations about not understanding the reason for the hold,” Sandy said.
Sandy testified on Nov. 16, becoming the first OMB official to do so after political appointees at the agency defied congressional subpoenas to participate in the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.
His testimony is the first public confirmation that the dispute at the OMB over handling of the Ukraine aid became so intense that it contributed to resignations from the agency.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/11/26/two-omb-officials-resigned-voicing-concerns-over-ukraine-aid-hold-official-testifies/
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