Broke law by pulling from park entrance fees during shutdown

[struggle4progress]

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]

1. So? Laws are for Democratics.

And Comeys and McCabes...

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Lock him up!!!

[Eugene]

3. Interesting logic at Interior.

Interior: You don't have all the facts.

Congress: Why won't you hand over the documents we requested?

Interior: *silence*