The federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) on Tuesday said that President Joe Biden’s administration didn’t break the law when it halted wall construction along the U.S.-Mexico border. The GAO said Biden’s order issued Jan. 20 that authorized a pause of wall construction did not violate the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act (ICA) of 1974. Biden’s order claimed that the wall, a signature campaign promise of candidate Donald Trump during 2016 campaign, is a waste of money. “It is clear that delays in the obligation and expenditure of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations for border fencing or barriers are programmatic delays, not impoundments and do not violate the ICA,” Shirley Jones, GAO’s managing associate general counsel for appropriations law, said in a statement on GAO’s website. Laws require the executive branch to spend the funds that are appropriated by Congress. According to its statement, GAO said that delays for environmental …