{"id":9605,"date":"2025-05-24T16:20:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T16:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rearview-mirror-stuff-trumps-budget-chief-mocks-gaos-impoundment-opinion-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T16:20:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T16:20:57","slug":"rearview-mirror-stuff-trumps-budget-chief-mocks-gaos-impoundment-opinion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rearview-mirror-stuff-trumps-budget-chief-mocks-gaos-impoundment-opinion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rearview mirror stuff\u2019: Trump\u2019s budget chief mocks GAO\u2019s impoundment opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House budget director Russ Vought publicly denigrated the federal government&rsquo;s top watchdog Friday, a day after it concluded the Trump administration violated the law by withholding federal cash. The Government Accountability Office issued an opinion Thursday that the administration made an illegal &#8220;impoundment&#8221; by refusing to spend appropriated funds on infrastructure that supports electric vehicles&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/23\/congress\/gao-impoundment-russ-vought-00367086\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House budget director Russ Vought publicly denigrated the federal government&rsquo;s top watchdog Friday, a day after it concluded the Trump administration violated the law by withholding federal cash. The Government Accountability Office issued an opinion Thursday that the administration made an illegal &#8220;impoundment&#8221; by refusing to spend appropriated funds on infrastructure that supports electric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}