这只看门狗会叫，但国会希望它能咬人。目前，在任命一位能够向最高法院挑战特朗普资金调拨举措的常任总审计长方面，进展甚微。
This watchdog can bark. Congress wants it to bite. There has been little movement toward installing a permanent comptroller general who could challenge Trump's funding moves before the Supreme Court.
国会议员们迫切需要在与特朗普政府争夺联邦资金控制权的斗争中获得支持，但本应介入这场斗争的监督机构却无动于衷。
Members of Congress are desperate for backup in their battle with the Trump administration over control of federal cash. The oversight agency that would lean into that fight is sitting on its hands.
独立的政府问责局（GAO）本周早些时候得出结论，白宫非法扣留了超过10亿美元的教育和医疗研究项目资金——这是特朗普总统第二任期开始以来，GAO发布的六项此类调查结果中的最新一项。
The independent Government Accountability Office concluded earlier this week that the White House illegally withheld more than $1 billion for education and health care research programs — the latest in more than a half-dozen such findings GAO has published since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term.
然而，该机构尚未动用其独特的权力将总统告上法庭以挑战这些“扣留资金”的行为。厌倦了政府践踏其拨款特权的议员们希望GAO采取行动。
But the agency has yet to use its unique power to take the president to court to challenge those “impoundments,” and lawmakers who are tired of the administration running roughshod over their funding prerogatives want GAO to act.
问题在于：由于前任总审计长去年退休后参议院尚未确认长期继任者，GAO目前由代理总审计长奥里斯·威廉姆斯·布朗（Orice Williams Brown）领导。议员们担心，她不愿行使临时职权来采取如此重大的法律行动。
There’s one problem: GAO is currently run by an interim director, acting Comptroller General Orice Williams Brown, because the Senate has yet to confirm a long-term replacement following her predecessor’s retirement last year. And lawmakers fear she’s reluctant to exercise her temporary authority to take such dramatic legal action.