Housing department to spend $165,000 on furniture as it faces $6.8bn budget cut [View all]
Jon Swaine in New York
Tue 27 Feb 2018 22.27 EST
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has agreed to spend $165,000 on "lounge furniture" .. in addition to a $31,000 dining set .. for .. Carson’s office.
... Trump’s administration has proposed a cut of $6.8bn to Hud’s annual budget, or roughly 14% of its total spending, which would lead to reductions in programs aimed at poor and homeless Americans.
Department officials signed a contract last September with an Indiana-based seller for the furniture ...
Raffi Williams, a spokesman for HUD, said .. further records on the lounge furniture contract were not immediately available ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/27/ben-carson-spokesman-falsely-denied-expensive-table-bought
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