by Dan Campion

“The Government Accountability Office…, a nonpartisan congressional watchdog, said … that the White House [Office of Management and Budget] violated the Impoundment Control Act, a 1974 law that limits the White House from withholding funds that Congress has appropriated.”
—CNN

In GAO v. OMB
(A watchdog posed against grandee)
There’s either nothing here to see
(Says OMB), or else the flow
Of funds was stopped (says GAO)
Illegally. It’s either/or,
You’d think. Except we can’t ignore
The obfuscative tendency
Of present White House regency,
Where OMBs and DOJs
Fill in while their Dear Sovereign plays
At being Emperor. What law,
They’ll ask, what act? and then guffaw
Behind closed doors. But don’t despair.
A whistle-blower’s listening there.