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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump officials went on a taxpayer-funded shopping spree. Heres the bill.
Trump officials went on a taxpayer-funded shopping spree. Heres the bill.
Well over $3 million and counting.
Adam Peck
Apr 24, 2018, 8:29 am
Last week, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer joined the cabal of cabinet-level officials from the Trump White House who have to defend themselves against charges of misusing taxpayer dollars for his own benefit.
The New York Post discovered that Lighthizer had authorized nearly $1,000,000 in spending to renovate two of his Washington, DC offices on the taxpayers dime. That figure included a 30-inch, $859 plaque emblazoned with the words Executive Office of the President, 90 office chairs billed at $600 apiece, and a $3,500 antique desk for himself.
Lighthizer, Donald Trumps top general in his Great Trade War of 2018, defended the exorbitant spending in the most Republican way imaginable: he blamed President Obama.
The furniture purchases are the culmination of a longtime, planned project that began under the Obama Administration to replace two-decade-old furniture, read a statement issued by Lighthizers office. Laughable, was what one former Obama administration official said in response. Combined, the past two Trade Representatives spent less than half of what Lighthizers office spent during the same period of time.
But Lighthizers spending got us thinking. Donald Trump filled his cabinet with a whos who of multi-millionaires (and the occasional billionaire) and yet several of them have spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars for private flights overseas, lavish furniture for their offices and residences, and the occasional soundproof phone booth.
Heres a quick look at the creative and extravagant ways these millionaires have spent your money (so far).
lots more...
https://thinkprogress.org/how-many-taxpayer-dollars-trump-cabinet-have-wasted-95e4ef80f6cc/
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Trump officials went on a taxpayer-funded shopping spree. Heres the bill. (Original Post)
babylonsister
Apr 2018
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spanone
(135,900 posts)1. K&R...
Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)2. Started under Obama? Prove it, you are a republican therefore you lie.
Since an Obama official called it "laughable" they are indeed lying.
WHEN will the deplorables figure out what is going on.
Does nothing matter as long as they get their lifelong desire of making sure women are imprisoned or executed for having an abortion?
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)3. +20,000
spooky3
(34,498 posts)4. The IRS needs to open an audit of each of these guys' tax returns and any relevant corporate
Last edited Tue Apr 24, 2018, 10:18 PM - Edit history (1)
or partnership returns. I wouldn't doubt that, wherever they were able, they used corporate or partnership $ to pay personal expenses.