White House budget officials resigned amid frustration with President Trump’s order to freeze military assistance to Ukraine.
Mark Sandy, whose closed-door deposition transcript was released Tuesday, said concerns about the hold on military aid caused at least two officials to resign. One stepped down over concerns that the hold was violating the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, which sharply curbs the executive branch’s authority to alter congressionally appropriated funds; another resigned over “frustrations about not understanding the reason for the hold.”