WASHINGTON—The Trump administration didn’t have the legal authority to put on hold millions of dollars in security assistance to Ukraine, Congress’s nonpartisan watchdog found, adding more scrutiny to the funding freeze this summer that led to the impeachment of President Trump. In its opinion Thursday, the Government Accountability Office wrote that the Office of Management and Budget improperly froze the money for policy reasons.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 16, 2020 15:08 UTC