The Government Accountability Office should determine whether the Trump administration broke the law in redirecting nearly $400 million toward White House security from Republicans’ tax cuts law, key Senate Democrats wrote to the independent watchdog.
Senate Appropriations Vice Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), the ranking member on a subcommittee overseeing spending on the Department of Homeland Security, wrote to acting GAO Comptroller General Orice Brown asking her to look into whether the White House Office of Management and Budget’s $396.6 million apportionment to the Secret Service would be used to build a ballroom at the White ...