Mark Steven Sandy is an American career official with the U.S. federal government. He served as acting director of the

Office of Management and Budget The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). OMB's most prominent function is to produce the president's budget, but it also examines agency programs, pol ...

(OMB) from January 20 to February 16, 2017. , he was the Deputy Associate Director for National Security Programs at OMB.

Early life and education

Sandy grew up in

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, the youngest of three children. He completed high school at

North Cross School North Cross School is an independent, coeducational, college-preparatory day school in Roanoke, Virginia for children from age three to twelfth grade. The school was founded in 1944 in Salem, Virginia. Accreditation North Cross is accredited b ...

in Roanoke, Virginia, graduating with the class of 1984 as valedictorian, having served as class president and chairman of the North Cross Honor Council. The school bestowed on him with Thomas Slack Award, named after a former headmaster, and awarded for "citizenship and strength of character." At

Davidson College Davidson College is a private liberal arts college in Davidson, North Carolina. It was established in 1837 by the Concord Presbytery and named after Revolutionary War general William Lee Davidson, who was killed at the nearby Battle of Cowan� ...

, Sandy earned a bachelor's in politics and economics in 1987 and was president of the student government association. He went on to earn a second bachelor's in philosophy, politics and economics at the

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on a

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that he'd won in 1985. He then earned a

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from the

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in 1991 on a

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. After graduating, he was nominated for a Henry Luce Scholarship for a placement at the Institute for International Policy Studies in

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from 1991 to 1992.

Career

Sandy is a career official with the U.S. federal government. He has served under both Republican and Democratic administrations. By 2019 he had become a senior career official at the Office of Management and Budget, senior enough so that he served as acting director early in the Trump administration, before political appointees were hired. In testifying during the impeachment inquiry, Sandy became the first OMB official to meet with investigators after higher ranking political appointees fought subpoenas and refused to provide requested documents. Sandy was signatory on at least one "

apportionment The legal term apportionment (french: apportionement; Mediaeval Latin: , derived from la, portio, share), also called delimitation, is in general the distribution or allotment of proper shares, though may have different meanings in different c ...

letter" that delayed the release of military aid to Ukraine in 2019. On November 16, 2019, he testified in a deposition that Trump did in fact enact an unusual freeze in aid to Ukraine.

References

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Early life and education

Career

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