GOP fights GAO efforts to throttle Trump administration

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The Trump administration is engaged on another front in its war with the federal bureaucracy, this time with the Government Accountability Office.

As an independent watchdog agency, the GAO largely operates outside of President Donald Trump‘s purview, and he cannot remove its director, Gene Dodaro. But that hasn’t stopped the White House and congressional Republicans from battling with the office.

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