The GSA Inspector General found that the agency improperly ignored constitutional issues raised by Donald Trump's continued interest in the Old Post Office hotel lease after he became president.
GSA watchdog found the agency ignored hotel-lease constitutional issues
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- 2019-01-16
- Evidence status
- documented
- Current status
- Inspector General finding issued
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11 matching recordsGAO could reproduce only 3.8 percent of DOGE's grant-savings dollars2026-08-06Elon Muskpublished grant totals without reproducible calculationsGAO audit of DOGE's Wall of Receipts1 sourceOnly 27.5 percent of DOGE's contract savings followed its stated method2026-08-06Elon Muskpublished savings that mostly failed its stated methodGAO audit of DOGE's Wall of Receipts1 sourceGAO found $27.4 billion in DOGE-listed contracts with no termination action2026-08-06Elon Muskcounted contracts without termination actions as savingsGAO audit of DOGE's Wall of Receipts1 sourceGAO could not link 1,856 DOGE contract entries worth $7.2 billion to federal records2026-08-06Elon Muskpublished contract savings that GAO could not traceGAO audit of DOGE's Wall of Receipts1 sourceGAO could not link $25.63 billion of DOGE grant claims to award records2026-08-06Elon Muskpublished grant savings that could not be tracedGAO audit of DOGE's Wall of Receipts1 sourceGAO found 5,812 DOGE-listed contracts produced zero recorded savings2026-08-06Elon Muskpublished cancellations whose records showed no savingsGAO audit of DOGE's Wall of Receipts1 sourceU.S. Article 51 defense of Operation Midnight Hammer draws sustained legal challenge2025-07-03Donald J. Trumpoperation order under independent legal reviewOperation Midnight Hammer legal and impact review2 sourcesUN and Human Rights Watch document grave abuses in Xinjiang during Xi's tenure2022-08-31Xi Jinpinghead of state during documented Xinjiang abusesOHCHR Xinjiang human-rights assessment2 sourcesAmnesty linked five United States Somalia strikes to 14 civilian deaths and eight injuries2019-03-20Donald J. Trumpwas commander in chief during strikes in Amnesty's civilian-harm reviewAmnesty International's 2019 Somalia civilian-harm investigation1 sourceGSA watchdog found the agency ignored hotel-lease constitutional issues2019-01-16Donald J. Trumpretained hotel lease interest examined by GSA watchdogGSA Inspector General Old Post Office lease evaluation1 sourceAmnesty documents extrajudicial killings and disproportionate harm to poor people under Duterte2017-01-31Rodrigo Duterteadministration's anti-drug campaign examined by AmnestyAmnesty review of Philippine drug-war killings1 source
