‘Rearview mirror stuff’: Trump’s budget chief mocks GAO’s impoundment opinion

Russ Vought, the White House budget director, criticized the federal government’s chief watchdog in a public statement on Friday. This came after the Government Accountability Office found on Thursday that the Trump administration had broken the law by holding back federal funds. The GAO determined that the administration’s refusal to allocate money for electric vehicle infrastructure amounted to an unlawful “impoundment.”