tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90276539946960737442024-02-18T20:33:17.397-07:00Government WasteJim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.comBlogger470125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-40473630569477639052020-07-05T13:54:00.000-07:002020-07-05T13:54:29.863-07:00Taxpayers pay millions per year for multiple retirement plans serving already wealthy legislators<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Members of Congress are eligible for 401(k)-equivalent plans, in addition to generous pension plans. Members of Congress (and other federal employees and members of the uniformed services) are eligible for the Thrift Savings Plan, which is essentially the same as an employer-backed 401(k) retirement fund, except that in this case, the “employer contribution” is actually funded by U.S. taxpayers. The Thrift Savings Plan offers a 5% match rate and competitively low administrative fees, making it widely viewed as one of the best deals around. As of 2019, more than 5.5 million Americans were Thrift Savings Plan participants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Critics of taxpayer-funded retirement plans for members of Congress wonder why their representatives are allowed to double-dip into taxpayer funded plans, especially when the median net worth of a U.S. member exceeds $1.1 million.Click <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/waste-fraud-and-abuse/americans-pay-millions-each-year-multiple-retirement-plans" target="_blank">here</a> to read the full article.</span>Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-42591355298954976982020-06-14T12:27:00.000-07:002020-06-14T12:27:02.169-07:00Congress spent $3.06 million on failed impeachment probe<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to a new report, Congress added $3 million to the legislative branch's already exorbitant $1.3 trillion annual budget for the failed impeachment of Donald Trump. The $3 million tally is a conservative estimate, since it does not yet include the impeachment costs run up during the Senate trial in January and February. It also does not factor in overtime pay for Capitol Police, witness travel expenses, or supplies and materials required for the hearings and trial. Adding the impeachment spending to the $32 million spent on the Mueller investigation, the taxpayer has been billed a total of $35 million for the two investigations, neither of which resulted in bipartisan findings of presidential wrongdoing.</span>Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-85361574054868254072020-06-08T17:31:00.004-07:002020-06-08T17:31:50.638-07:00Food Stamp Failures<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Feds offering $5 million to stop billions of dollars of fraud. Throwing good money after bad, USDA is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to theoretically prevent additional billions from being fraudulently spent. Click <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/waste-fraud-and-abuse/food-stamp-failures-government-offering-5-mil-grant-stop" target="_blank">here</a> to read the full article.</span>Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-14697844742026225682020-05-09T09:42:00.001-07:002020-05-09T09:42:47.595-07:00Political ElitesI cannot help but notice that the politicians and bureaucrats, who want businesses to remain closed, are still receiving paychecks funded by taxpayers. I wonder what their position would be if they had no source of income, could not pay their bills and had to stand in long lines at food banks in order to feed their family.<br />
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Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-78094642889090865872020-05-01T13:01:00.000-07:002020-05-01T13:01:28.589-07:00New York's Waste & Mismanagement<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">While </span>New York<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> has weathered the brunt of </span>coronavirus<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> infections and deaths, the state’s apparent hoarding of medical supplies, and the millions spent on equipment that never arrived, as well as unused hospitals and beds, have some questioning what went wrong. Click <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/coronavirus-crisis-amid-new-yorks-unused-hospital-beds-and-entilators-critics-point-to-waste-and-mismanagement" target="_blank">here</a> for full report.</span></span>Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-47578478665732743622020-04-27T11:23:00.000-07:002020-04-27T11:29:34.379-07:00$66 million on a temporary immigrant detention center that was hardly usedThe Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a division of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), spent $66 million in five months on a temporary, 2,500-person immigration detention facility that housed an average of just 30 detainees a day, and never more than 66 at once.<br />
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According to a <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/705276.pdf" target="_blank">report</a> from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), CBP paid a private contractor $47 million to establish the detention center in El Paso, Texas and run the facility's support services, such as “meal services, guard services, toilets, and showers."<br />
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The report notes that CBP spent about $5.3 million on “the preparation and delivery of meals and snacks” that it did not need. Talk about abusing the corporate credit card — but in this case the credit card is the taxpayer’s wallet.<br />
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The facility was ordering food services (three meals a day) for the full capacity of the facility — 2,500 adults — when the center was only housing an average of 28 adults per day. According to the calculations in the report, that means the CBP paid for 675,000 meals in the first three months, when they only needed 13,428.<br />
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Another major unnecessary cost at the facility was the excessive number of personnel onsite. The report calculates that for each detainee being held at the facility, there were on average four members of the Texas National Guard, three contracted security guards, and one CBP enforcement officer.<br />
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DHS then had the opportunity to close the facility after three months of operating at just 1% capacity. Instead, the department decided to keep it open for another eight weeks, which cost the taxpayers an additional $19 million.million.<br />
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Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-86794620479996735592020-04-24T11:43:00.000-07:002020-04-27T11:45:27.681-07:00Tom Fitton: 'Air Pelosi' – What you don't know about the lucrative travel our leaders enjoy on your dimeTom Fitton of Judicial Watch wrote the following article for Fox News:<br />
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<i>In his letter to Pelosi blocking the trip, President Trump mentioned the 800,000 federal workers going without pay. The real irony is that U.S. government workers in Afghanistan, who were among those not being paid, worked for two weeks to plan the trip – and on a holiday weekend.</i></div>
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<i>We at Judicial Watch were not at all surprised by this foolishness. For years we have been exposing the lucrative travel our leaders enjoy at taxpayer expense.</i></div>
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<i>We have long noted Pelosi’s abuse of the perks of public office that granted her access to luxury military travel. This current expedition is hardly new for her.</i></div>
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<i>In 2009, during Pelosi’s first speakership, we uncovered documents from the Department of Defense detailing her multiple requests for military air travel. The documents included internal DOD email correspondence detailing attempts by DOD staff to accommodate Pelosi’s numerous requests for military escorts and military aircraft as well as the speaker’s last-minute cancellations and changes. <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-uncovers-documents-detailing-pelosis-repeated-requests-military-travel/">https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-uncovers-documents-detailing-pelosis-repeated-requests-military-travel/</a></i></div>
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<i>In response to a series of requests for military aircraft, one Defense Department official wrote, “Any chance of politely querying [Pelosi’s team] if they really intend to do all of these or are they just picking every weekend?… [T]here’s no need to block every weekend ‘just in case’…” The email also notes that Pelosi’s office had, “a history of canceling many of their past requests.”</i></div>
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<i>We reported in 2010 that Pelosi’s jet travel cost the Air Force $2,100,744.59 over a two-year period — $101,429.14 of which was for in-flight expenses, including food and alcohol. Some details:</i></div>
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<i>One CODEL traveling through Tel Aviv, Israel, to Baghdad, Iraq, May 15-20, 2008, included members of Congress and their spouses and cost $17,931 per hour in aircraft alone. Purchases for the CODEL included: Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewars scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels whiskey, Corona beer and several bottles of wine.</i></div>
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<i>And the CODELs didn’t stop after Speaker Pelosi lost power in 2010. We recently released more FOIA documents showing a bill for $184.587.81 for then-House Minority Leader Pelosi’s CODEL to Italy and Ukraine in 2015.</i></div>
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<i>Shutdowns aside, given that our national debt is nearly $22 trillion, it might be reasonable to ask members of Congress, on both sides of the aisle, to forego both the booze and the frivolous junkets.</i></div>
Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-58600222562094099862020-04-20T06:23:00.000-07:002020-04-20T06:23:33.621-07:00$240,000 Round Trip FlightFormer Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly spent nearly a quarter million dollars on a round-trip flight to Guam that ended in Modly’s resignation. Click <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/waste-fraud-and-abuse/roundtrip-flight-led-secretary-navys-resignation-cost" target="_blank">here</a> for the full report.Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-78576626344720567782020-04-14T16:21:00.001-07:002020-04-14T16:21:56.983-07:00$70,000 to send hip-hop stars to India for cultural understanding<a href="https://justthenews.com/" target="_blank"><i>Just The News</i></a> is reporting that the State Department is funding a $70,000 program called “<a href="https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=326011" target="_blank">Bridging Cultures Through Hip-Hop</a>”. The goal of the project is to “explore the commonalities and differences between India and the United States through this influential music genre,” according to a State Department grant description. Click <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/waste-fraud-and-abuse/wasteful-spending-watch-state-dept-sends-hip-hop-stars-india" target="_blank">here</a> for complete article.<br />
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Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-29813818965877439402020-04-01T13:06:00.000-07:002020-04-01T14:30:10.040-07:00Use Your PC To Fight COVID-19<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://foldingathome.org/" style="color: #ff3300; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;" target="_blank">Folding@home</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;"> uses </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing" style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">distributed computing</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;"> to do disease research. It has been around for years, but has recently turned its attention to the COVID-19 virus. You can help in the fight by downloading their program to your personal computer and letting it run in the background. You can choose to run it full time or just when the computer is idle. You can also choose how much power you wish to use. For more information, click </span><a href="https://foldingathome.org/2020/03/15/coronavirus-what-were-doing-and-how-you-can-help-in-simple-terms/" style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.524px;">.</span></span><br />
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Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-32101443861419730222020-02-19T10:52:00.000-07:002020-02-27T09:45:00.650-07:00Profiles in Corruption<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you have wondered why politicians spend huge amounts of money to run for office, then Peter Schweizer's "<i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Profiles-Corruption-Abuse-Americas-Progressive-ebook/dp/B07X1K1GLM" target="_blank">Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite</a></i>" is a must read.</span><br />
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Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-21668932417995629602020-02-01T13:30:00.003-07:002020-02-01T13:30:53.496-07:00$3.06 Million Impeachment<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to an estimate from the Heritage Foundation in December, the Democrat-led House of Representatives inquiry, and eventual impeachment of Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress on Dec. 18, cost taxpayers an estimated $3.06 million (this figure doesn't include the Senate trial).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That price tag includes the money spent on the salaries of 106 congressional staffers from the House Intelligence Committee, the Judiciary Committee and the Oversight and Reform Committee, who worked on impeachment from Sept. 24 to Dec. 13, according to the Daily Signal. It also included the estimated hourly fees of six attorneys who appeared during hearings.</span>Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-75151897023500843612020-01-22T12:34:00.001-07:002020-01-22T12:35:35.723-07:00Taxpayer-funded 'Political Attack Ad'<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that Democrats are essentially producing a taxpayer-funded campaign ad by impeaching President Trump ahead of the November election. Click <a href="http://former%20attorney%20general%20jeff%20sessions%20said%20tuesday%20that%20democrats%20are%20essentially%20producing%20a%20taxpayer-funded%20campaign%20ad%20by%20impeaching%20president%20trump%20ahead%20of%20the%20november%20election./" target="_blank">here</a> to read the full article.</span>Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-64907608975772019392020-01-05T18:04:00.002-07:002020-01-05T18:04:51.183-07:00California's New Dystopian Laws<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If you are curious as to what would happen if Democrats ran the country, just look at California...</span><br />
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Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-42099392157428166652019-12-22T13:48:00.000-07:002019-12-22T13:48:23.696-07:00Impeachment<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In my opinion, any rational individual who is not suffering from "<i>Trump Derangement Syndrome</i>" would see the highly partisan/political impeachment of the president as a complete and utter sham. The question I would like to ask those individuals who support impeachment is: "<i>i</i></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>f President Trump is as bad as you believe, then why is the country doing so well</i>".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are currently experiencing one of the best economies in my lifetime and it will only get better once the recent trade deals are implemented. Why would anyone want to risk losing it by going back to bigger government, higher taxes and more regulations? The only answer that makes sense to me is to regain political power at the expense of the American public.</span><br />
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Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-4144200410517775092019-12-11T10:34:00.001-07:002019-12-11T10:34:16.363-07:00Endless Investigations<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our government spends millions of taxpayer dollars on endless investigations but almost never holds anyone accountable. In my opinion, until someone is convicted and sent to prison, unelected bureaucrats will continue to do what is in their best interests, not the American public.</span><br />
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Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-49321926953202671472019-12-07T10:41:00.000-07:002019-12-08T15:22:04.399-07:00Waste Report<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Republican Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) recently published the fall edition of his <a href="https://www.paul.senate.gov/sites/default/files/page-attachments/Fall2019WasteReport.pdf" target="_blank">Waste Report</a> that details prodigal spending by the federal government. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to Paul's report, taxpayer spent $230 million on items ranging from $500,000 for an unused toilet and $22 million to bring Serbian cheese up to international standards.</span><br />
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Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-12376764955454809652019-12-03T08:45:00.000-07:002019-12-03T08:45:31.590-07:00EBT Card Abuse<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On 18 different occasions in 2019, a Massachusetts <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_benefit_transfer" target="_blank">Electronic Benefit Transfer</a> card was swiped in Hawaii — including one that was used twice at a posh island resort where rooms fetch $800 a night, a report published Monday said. According to the Herald's report, in one instance an EBT card was used to buy a $700 round-trip ticket from the state to Hawaii.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Boston Herald said it reviewed more than 2 million EBT expenditures over the past year and found thousands of out-of-state transactions that included withdrawals in Las Vegas and Alaska.</span><br />
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Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-72891282810006090002019-11-23T11:00:00.000-07:002019-11-23T11:00:17.180-07:00Home Improvements for a U.S. Ambassador<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In case you missed it in the rapid-fire news cycle of the Trump impeachment inquiry, key witness and U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland was revealed to have spent more than $1 million in taxpayer funds on renovations to his homes in Brussels and Washington, D.C. Far from the first administration official to be implicated for lavish personal spending, Sondland's purchases included $33,000 for Italian handmade furniture, $13,000 for a "split heat system Jacuzzi/swimming pool," $95,000 for the installation of an "outdoor living pod/pergola," and $100,000 for his family to relocate during the renovation process.</span>Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-72906867294678072752019-11-23T10:57:00.000-07:002019-11-23T10:57:25.227-07:00Crab and Lobster Splurge<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Toward the end of each fiscal year, federal agencies tend to splurge on outside contractors in a frenzy to run out their budget, lest they come in under and lose the funds for the next year. Of the $544 billion allotted for outside contractors in 2018, for example, almost $97 billion was spent in September, the last month of the fiscal year. The Department of Defense was responsible for almost two-thirds of these last-minute expenditures, with the most newsworthy items being $2.1 million on games and toys, $490 million for furniture, and $4.6 million on crab and lobster tail.</span><br />
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Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-3611706619309690632019-11-20T11:18:00.000-07:002019-11-20T11:18:59.939-07:00Prime Cuts 2019<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To help prevent this fiscal disaster from occurring, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) is releasing <a href="https://www.cagw.org/reporting/2019-prime-cuts" target="_blank"><i>Prime Cuts 2019</i></a>, which has been published since 1993. The 2019 version contains 620 recommendations that would save taxpayers $433.8 billion in the first year and $3.9 trillion over five years.</span><br />
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Jim Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18063309710113645321noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9027653994696073744.post-80752380097957401812019-09-25T11:15:00.000-07:002019-09-26T08:33:57.388-07:00Trump Impeachment<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Democrats have been attacking and obstructing President Trump ever since he was elected. Although I disagree with their tactics, it is their right and unfortunately, a part of the highly partisan political theater in our country today. What I do object to is the waste of taxpayer dollars on endless investigations that have little or no merit. In essence, they are using taxpayer money for political purposes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was bad enough that they wasted $30 million on the Mueller Report. Now, they want to spend even more money on trying to impeach President Trump which will fail because it will not pass in the senate. They simply want to discredit President Trump before the 2020 election. If you like, please feel free to comment in the section below and/or vote in the poll...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On average, the office spent roughly $8.4 million per each six-month period. If the final statement -- which has still not been released -- remains on par with previous costs, total spending from the investigation is expected to reach $34 million in both direct and indirect spending.</span><br />
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