The building of the Federal Emergency Management Agency can be seen on May 15, 2025 in Washington, DC (photo of Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images).
Washington – The non -partisan accountability office for accounting obligation published a report on Monday in which the Federal Emergency Management Agency violated the law when the obligation of the financing congress were retained or delayed, which was approved for the program for emergency and protection programs and the program for protection and services.
The finding is the sixth time this year, in which the GAO has determined that the Trump government has violated the law on combating the pollution control, which represents the president a legal procedure to apply for congress that can terminate the previously approved expenses.
Instead of following this process, the Trump government tensed the issue of a message about the financing options considerably, the first step to award grants from the emergency program for food and protection. The FEMA has not published this message for the program for the animal shelter and service program.
Fema programs offer food, accommodation
Gao wrote in The 22-page report The delay of the emergency -no and shelter program on the possibility of financing is “an inadmissible back and a violation of the ICA”.
The measures of the Trump administration in relation to the protection and service program “do the intention of inadmissible or excluding the budget authority’s obligation,” the report says.
The program for emergency and protection programs “complements and expands the continuous work of local non-profit and state social service organizations in order to offer individuals and families protection, food and supportive services that have the risk of hunger and/or homelessness,” according to Fema’s website.
The protection and service program should offer fleeting apartments to facilitate overcrowding in the federal immigration facilities.
Congress powers
Gao also tried to enhance the separation of powers in the constitution in the constitution and explained that the congress approved laws and that the president, as soon as the president signs these laws, to implement this government branch to implement them.
“This process does not give the President the authority to adopt his own laws or to ignore or change a law enacted by the Congress. Instead, the president has to” carry out faithfully “, while the congress comes into force,” says the GAO report. “It follows that executive regulations cannot serve to cancel or reverse laws.”
The member of the Senate appropriation committee, the member Patty Murray, D-Wash. The latest GAO report is another sturdy memory of a fact that we have known for months: President Trump violates the law in order to prevent the municipalities throughout the country from receiving resources that have been promised, including critical funds to fix the homelessness.
“The same guy who says that he wants to bring people off the street blocks the financing of the communities in order to tackle the homelessness. Donald Trump and Russ must allow these resources immediately, and the Republican legislators have to agree with the last part of this financing in fair, impartial way.”
VOUGHT is the director of the office for management and budget.
Ariana Figueroa contributed to this report.
