{"id":5633,"date":"2025-11-14T09:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=5633"},"modified":"2025-11-14T09:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:06:17","slug":"senate-and-trump-on-a-collision-course-over-the-leadership-of-the-gao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/senate-and-trump-on-a-collision-course-over-the-leadership-of-the-gao\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate and Trump on a collision course over the leadership of the GAO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kosar-GAO-appointee-WEX-11-19-2025.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"639\" height=\"831\" data-attachment-id=\"5634\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/senate-and-trump-on-a-collision-course-over-the-leadership-of-the-gao\/kosar-gao-appointee-wex-11-19-2025\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kosar-GAO-appointee-WEX-11-19-2025.png\" data-orig-size=\"639,831\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kosar GAO appointee WEX 11-19-2025\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kosar-GAO-appointee-WEX-11-19-2025-231x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kosar-GAO-appointee-WEX-11-19-2025.png\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kosar-GAO-appointee-WEX-11-19-2025.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kosar-GAO-appointee-WEX-11-19-2025.png 639w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kosar-GAO-appointee-WEX-11-19-2025-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gene L. Dodaro is not a household name. He is a mild-mannered man who is rarely seen without a necktie and dark suit, and who speaks in a flat, matter-of-fact tone. He has worked for the federal government since 1973. Yet, his retirement in December may well set off a separation-of-powers battle royale between President Donald Trump and Congress. Dodaro is the head of the Government Accountability Office, which has been a thorn in the president\u2019s side during his second term&#8230;. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/premium\/3880837\/trump-senate-battle-new-gao-leader\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene L. Dodaro is not a household name. He is a mild-mannered man who is rarely seen without a necktie and dark suit, and who speaks in a flat, matter-of-fact tone. He has worked for the federal government since 1973. Yet, his retirement in December may well set off a separation-of-powers battle royale between President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1sR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5635,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions\/5635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}