Bush Used HHS Budget for National Events

[kimchi]

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Posted on Fri, Jul. 11, 2003

Mods: I didn't see this in LBN or GD, and it is more than 12 hours old, but it seems important.


WASHINGTON - The Bush administration spent hundreds of thousands of dollars from its health and welfare budget to stage presidential events around the country last year - most of which coincided with campaign appearances for Republican candidates.

A report released Friday by the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative arm, identified 15 trips where the White House asked the Department of Health and Human Services to pick up the tab.

Agreements reached between the White House and HHS allowed for charges totaling about $523,000. So far, the White House has sent HHS bills for eight of the 15 trips totaling just over $250,000. The GAO could not find invoices or other records to explain specifically how the money was spent.

[revcarol]

1. The reason you aren't getting any answers is not that we don't care;

it's because this was posted before. WE ARE SICK ABOUT THIS!!

And somewhere in the bowels of DU is the other thread. I don't know how to access it.