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A Democrat-led House appropriations subcommittee scheduled a hearing Wednesday to “hold the Trump administration accountable for its actions during the partial federal government shutdown.”
A senior Trump administration official said one of the witnesses set to testify is the co-author of an “infamous legal memo” with arguments ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge.
The memo author, Sam Berger, co-wrote the memo in 2013 while working for the Obama administration in the Office of Management and Budget.
A Democrat-led House appropriations subcommittee scheduled a hearing Wednesday to “hold the Trump administration accountable for its actions during the partial federal government shutdown,” but a senior Trump administration official is questioning the qualifications of one of the expert witnesses set to testify.
The hearing will feature testimony from three witnesses, including former Office of Management and Budget (OMB) employee Sam Berger, who now works for the liberal nonprofit Center for American Progress. A federal judge in May 2016 rejected legal reasoning Berger laid out in a controversial 2013 OMB memo he co-authored on funding for certain Obamacare subsidies.
“It is bizarre for Sam Berger to hold himself out as an expert on ‘agency spending restrictions,'” a senior administration official told The Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement. “Immediately after law school, Berger worked at OMB as a junior attorney in the Obama Administration. During his time at OMB, Mr. Berger authored an infamous legal memo that was responsible for the federal government unconstitutionally spending $7 billion to fund an Obamacare subsidy program. His memo triggered a two-year congressional investigation, and his defective legal arguments were rejected by a federal court.”
The memo written by Berger and two others was at the center of an investigation by the Republican-led House Ways And Means Committee investigation that wrapped up in 2016. The IRS chief risk officer in 2014, David Fisher, scheduled at least two meetings to deal with his concerns over the appropriations justified by the memo, reported The Hill. The IRS is responsible for distributing the payments, which added up to billions of dollars each year.
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/02/06/house-democrats-appropriation/