Taxpayer funds were used to purchase equipment and pay salaries.
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This is simply about separating taxpayer funds from abortion operations.
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Workforce gaps fuel inefficiency and a waste of taxpayer funds.
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Barring Congress from using taxpayer funds to pay sexual harassment settlements.
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Ryan dismissed the idea of using taxpayer funds on infrastructure, however.
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All settlements and awards are paid out of appropriated taxpayer funds.
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And better performance would reduce appeals, which would conserve taxpayer funds.
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Congressional offices are prohibited from using taxpayer funds for campaign purposes.
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Critics accused him of seeking to spend taxpayer funds on personal travel.
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I don't think these attacks are motivated by concerns around taxpayer funds.
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This time, critics assert he wasted taxpayer funds on a customized SUV.
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The taxpayer funds cannot be used to help secure lawmakers' personal homes.
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They have also raised concerns about using taxpayer funds to construct it.
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Administering taxpayer funds at this level requires mature systems of disbursement and accountability.
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The EPA chief has faced continuing criticism for his use of taxpayer funds.
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Yet we celebrate the first student and lavish taxpayer funds on his education.
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Pruitt's tendency to abuse taxpayer funds as he travels is, of course, concerning.
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Shulkin's abuse of taxpayer funds, while scandalous, probably wasn't why he lost his job.
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The $84,000 settlement was made out of court and was paid using taxpayer funds.
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The settlement will be paid with insurance money, not taxpayer funds, the statement said.
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The cheekily named legislation prohibits taxpayer funds to be used on officially painted portraits.
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He also brought shame to his office by wasting taxpayer funds on his travel.
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Patrick Meehan paid a former aide with taxpayer funds after she reported inappropriate behavior.
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Agencies would not be permitted to use taxpayer funds to pay for such penalties.
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He lambasted state legislatures that don't want to send taxpayer funds to private religious schools.
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Efforts to lure Amazon with taxpayer funds are a "big mistake", said urbanist Richard Florida.
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Pence will not use taxpayer funds to pay for the attorney, according to The Post.
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The lower court said state law prohibits taxpayer funds from being used to repair churches.
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Blake Farenthold of Texas, who used taxpayer funds to settle a harassment case against him.
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I certainly think that if you accept taxpayer funds for settlement, that should be transparent.
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If found guilty by the Ethics Committee, Meehan said he would repay the taxpayer funds.
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Ryan also said Meehan must repay taxpayer funds that were used to settle the case.
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The $84,85033 settlement was made out of court, and was paid out using taxpayer funds.
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Additionally, they ask for regular reporting on the use of taxpayer-funds to settle cases.
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Being skewered over the £2.4m ($3m) of taxpayer funds spent renovating their house particularly rankled.
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The taxpayer funds had been approved by Congress to help Ukraine protect against Russian aggression.
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It would bar taxpayer funds from being used to pay sexual assault and harassment cases against lawmakers and staff, and it would force lawmakers and staff who have used taxpayer funds to resolve claims in the past to reimburse the federal government with interest.
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The IRS agreed with some of TIGTA's recommendations but strongly disagreed that it wasted taxpayer funds.
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Blake Farenthold, the congressman who reached a secret $84,000 sexual harassment settlement paid with taxpayer funds.
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Proponents claim the new system would be funded by a user fee instead of taxpayer funds.
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That is a $12 billion bailout using taxpayer funds for a problem the president himself created.
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Republicans quickly praised the order as an advancement of "pro-life" policies that protect taxpayer funds.
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The Buffalo factory was built with $750 million in taxpayer funds and then leased to Tesla.
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CPCs all over the state, both in rural and urban areas, are benefiting from taxpayer funds.
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Ryan also told Meehan he must repay whatever taxpayer funds were used to settle the case.
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Under the Constitution, decisions about spending taxpayer funds and creating policy are typically made by Congress.
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Under the Constitution, Congress holds the national purse strings and approves major expenditures of taxpayer funds.
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" Then there was the one who "requested to report Melania Trump, who is stealing caller's taxpayer funds.
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Under the U.S. Constitution, Congress holds the national purse strings and approves major expenditures of taxpayer funds.
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As a result, Trump has been forced to ask Congress for U.S. taxpayer funds for the wall.
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This new agency would be funded by the industry with no taxpayer funds or taxes on bettors.
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But the allegation that he misappropriated taxpayer funds was enough to cast a cloud over his job.
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Taxpayer funds spent on international education help bring people to the U.S. who buy goods and services.
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It is time to hold the industry accountable and stop using taxpayer funds to cover its liabilities.
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The government still has $22019 billion available in taxpayer funds to provide to the GSEs if necessary.
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Voters also want to see more oversight of prisons to ensure taxpayer funds are being spent responsibly.
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In addition, Mr. Ryan told Mr. Meehan that he should repay the taxpayer funds, Ms. Strong said.
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Comer, would begin to weaken the prohibitions against using taxpayer funds to cover tuition at parochial schools.
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Jacobsen describes the multidecades-long effort to lavish oodles of taxpayer funds on techniques that never worked.
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It means they will no longer receive taxpayer funds and won't be expected to perform royal duties.
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"The reality is there is a lot of R&D being done with taxpayer funds," Purvis said.
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Ms. Ley said she was confident she had not broken rules on the use of taxpayer funds.
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Another measure would allow child welfare agencies receiving taxpayer funds to refuse to place children in LGBTQ homes.
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Meanwhile, Price stepped down last year after he was accused of improperly using taxpayer funds for charter flights.
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Democrats say the order tramples on Congress' constitutional authority to make major decisions about spending U.S. taxpayer funds.
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Google had no comment on Tennessee's effort to knock the ads from the top spot with taxpayer funds.
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Spending federal money or any other taxpayer funds on vouchers for private school tuition is looked on harshly.
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She compensated Awan with taxpayer funds for several months, all while he was under indictment for bank fraud charges.
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Cuomo is proposing legislation that would prevent taxpayer funds from being used to settle sexual assault and harassment complaints.
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It sets up a strong agenda of stronger enforcement of sexual harassment and no taxpayer funds used for settlements.
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However, he said there was still discussion of whether U.S. taxpayer funds could be used to finance the purchase.
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However, there is no constitutional right to contract with local governments and use those taxpayer-funds to unlawfully discriminate.
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In total, these investigations cost about $30 million in taxpayer funds, according to Ciro Scotti of the Fiscal Times.
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Their battle also hinges on allegations of sexism, mismanagement and whether Verma squandered millions of dollars in taxpayer funds.
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A president's authority to declare a national emergency gives him the power to redirect taxpayer funds Congress has already approved.
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And he took to Twitter to question the use of taxpayer funds to fly Clinton and Obama to North Carolina.
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Almost $28503 million in taxpayer funds have been paid to corporations successfully attacking environmental and health safeguards in NAFTA tribunals.
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Former Speakers can still use taxpayer funds to run the post-Speaker office even if they are collecting other income.
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Almost $20 million in taxpayer funds have already been spent on these investigations, none of which has found anything nefarious.
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He spent $3 million of taxpayer funds on an extensive security detail, which was three times bigger than his predecessor's.
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Shulkin's firing came after an inspector general report took issue with the VA's use of taxpayer funds on Shulkin's travel.
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His behavior was the subject of an $84,000 settlement in taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment claim against him.
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Gary Herbert (R) has asked his state's legislature to allocate $50,000 in taxpayer funds to a nonprofit group that fights pornography.
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The Department of Homeland Security pointed to the Trump administration's goal of better prioritizing taxpayer funds in a statement to NBC.
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"I would remind Secretary Price that taxpayer funds are not meant to be used as a jet-setting slush fund," Rep.
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Trump fired Shulkin in March amid an investigation into alleged misuse of taxpayer funds and reported clashes over privatizing the agency.
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Chaotic Trump transition leaks: Debates must tackle how Democrats will govern differently MORE resigned amid reports that he misused taxpayer funds.
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Policymakers have an obligation to taxpayers to ensure that all government programs produce the maximum results for the taxpayer funds received.
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As one participant would later put it, taxpayer funds were an irresistible mark for a simple reason: They never ran out.
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Lawmakers won't be faced with a standalone vote on approving the $1.6 billion in taxpayer funds to pay for the wall.
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The House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday approved bipartisan legislation that would limit when the IRS can seize taxpayer funds.
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A series of revelations about Verma's stewardship of taxpayer funds has also intensified the feud and drawn interest from congressional investigators.
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House Democrats unveiled legislation last week that would prohibit the use of taxpayer funds to display Confederate symbols on federal property.
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Trump plans to favor fossil fuels over renewable energies and has threatened to halt any U.S. taxpayer funds for U.N. climate programmes.
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The legislation also proposes restricting the use of taxpayer funds for abortion by banning people from using HSA funds for elective abortions.
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"I think virtually every Republican agrees that we should not be spending taxpayer funds to pay for abortions," he told The Hill.
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In fact, while he was so busy conducting immigration sweeps, his office ignored sex crimes and allegedly mismanaged millions in taxpayer funds.
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Hogan Gidley, a White House deputy press secretary, accused Puerto Rican authorities on Wednesday of misusing taxpayer funds in the 2017 hurricanes.
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Hogan Gidley, a White House deputy press secretary, accused Puerto Rican authorities on Wednesday of misusing taxpayer funds in the 2017 hurricanes.
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Needing billions more for the project than Congress has been willing to appropriate, Trump has been diverting taxpayer funds from the military.
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And outside liberal organizations have given over $1.5 million to anti-Saccone coverage, including ads painting Saccone as extravagant with taxpayer funds.
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Was the NIEHS aware of Chris Portier's and others' conflicts of interest when it provided millions in taxpayer funds to the IARC?
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Add to these destructive policies the fact that this president and his family are burning through taxpayer funds like it's Monopoly money.
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Don Beyer (D-Va.), submitted similar amendments to prevent taxpayer funds from going to Trump properties to the spending bill in July.
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Since 2628, over 28503 million students have borrowed over $22019 billion, again without the expenditure of a single dime of taxpayer funds.
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Raul Grijalva (R-Ariz.) used taxpayer funds to silence a staffer who claimed the congressman's drunkenness contributed to a hostile work environment.
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Patrick Meehan, who is the subject of an ethics investigation after he reportedly used taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment claim.
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Democrats have argued the panel's inquiry was a waste of taxpayer funds, intended to concoct a reason to shut down the group.
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Some elected leaders have endorsed that "build it and they will come" approach, and are even using taxpayer funds to advance it.
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The state rejected the church's grant application, though, due to a constitutional provision that bars the distribution of taxpayer funds to religious organizations.
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As BuzzFeed News and other news organizations have recently revealed, allegations in the Capitol are settled by a secretive office using taxpayer funds.
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We're suing President Trump to stop him from unilaterally robbing taxpayer funds lawfully set aside by Congress for the people of our states.
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Farenthold was sued over sexual harassment in 2014 by his former communications director and used $84,000 of taxpayer funds to settle the case.
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And in 2001, Bush restored the "Mexico City policy," which said taxpayer funds should not be used to pay for or promote abortion.
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HTT is working with governments but remains predominantly privately funded, Ahlborn noted, adding that the goal was to have zero taxpayer funds involved.
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The Colorado-focused bill helps to ensure that when taxpayer funds are used, our citizens get what they want from their internet service.
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After Secretary David Shulkin's controversies -- including allegations of misusing taxpayer funds -- and eventual exit consumed weeks of headlines, Jackson's controversies consumed still more.
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The state's conservative lawmakers have filed legislation aimed at prohibiting taxpayer funds from being used to cover abortions, The Chicago Tribune reported Thursday.
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The airline, which had debt worth 487.81 million rupees as of March 31, 2017, has been kept afloat for years using taxpayer funds.
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The SEC offsets any taxpayer funds it receives with user fees and fines, which means its spending does not affect the federal deficit.
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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned after months of federal investigations into his alleged misuse of taxpayer funds, excessive spending, and conflicts of interest.
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It's almost guaranteed, then, that the next few months will be filled with partisan fighting and wrangling over how to use taxpayer funds.
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A bipartisan bill proposed this month would require lawmakers to personally pay harassment settlements rather than using taxpayer funds, as Meehan reportedly did.
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House GOP leaders won't be allowing votes this week on Democratic proposals to prevent taxpayer funds from benefiting businesses owned by President Trump.
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Shulkin contends he was pushed out because he opposed privatizing the agency, but he also faced allegations over the misuse of taxpayer funds.
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Hopefully, whatever happened, it was worth $100 million of taxpayer funds—and an enormous controversy that has tarnished the NSA's reputation for years.
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A good start would be empowering the FOMB or a federally-installed monitor to oversee the use and disbursement of all taxpayer funds.
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Trump's action reinstates a rule prohibiting the use of U.S. taxpayer funds for nongovernmental organizations that provide abortion services or support abortion rights.
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Y.) and Dwight Evans (D-Pa.) have filed a bill prohibiting the use of taxpayer funds to display Confederate symbols on federal property.
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Legislatures in blue states can be expected to test the limits of Janus; some will try to directly subsidize unions with taxpayer funds.
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Virginia threw into the package more than $1 billion in additional taxpayer funds to build a pipeline of technical workers and improve transportation.
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Ryan told Meehan to repay whatever taxpayer funds were used to settle the case, the speaker's spokeswoman, AshLee Strong, said in a statement.
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Those provisions included major changes to the sexual harassment complaint process and a requirement that taxpayer funds used to settle harassment lawsuits be reimbursed.
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Farida Baig, the daughter of Quine's victim, voiced her objection to using taxpayer funds for a procedure that is cost prohibitive for non-criminals.
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Along with the suggestions of an affair, there have been allegations that Bentley misappropriated taxpayer funds in order to cover up an illicit relationship.
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Federal law has long prohibited the use of taxpayer funds for abortion services, which make up only a part of what Planned Parenthood offers.
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By diverting taxpayer funds from public to private schools, we are taking away parents' and students' choice to go to a quality public school.
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An online fundraising campaign he started to avoid using taxpayer funds for a name change to Stonewall Jackson High School has raised about $2,000.
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He's also used taxpayer funds for trips such as one to Morocco to promote natural gas exports and to his hometown of Tulsa, Okla.
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"All Americans share an interest in a smooth presidential transition, and federal laws authorize the use of taxpayer funds for that purpose," they said.
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The rocket looks great on paper, but there are some problems that the Trump administration should consider before devoting taxpayer funds to its growth.
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Two government watchdog agencies are examining whether he misused taxpayer funds for personal and political gain (another favorite scam of the Trump administration toadies).
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The idea is that the debt would act as a source of new capital for the seized bank, removing the need for taxpayer funds.
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Trump also wants $25 billion in taxpayer funds for his border wall as part of a budget deal that must be negotiated before Feb.
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" He added that policy prevents "taxpayer funds" from "being spent overseas to perform an action that is contrary to the values of this president.
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If elected, she promises to repeal the Hyde Amendment which for decades has banned the use of taxpayer funds to pay for most abortions.
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As president, he has repeatedly criticized the special counsel inquiry and has questioned whether it is the best use of time and taxpayer funds.
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"The Committee does not believe that U.S. taxpayer funds should be used to personally enrich President Trump, his family, and his companies," Cummings wrote.
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The governor did not say how much money the funds should have at their disposal and whether California would back them with taxpayer funds.
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What bothers some critics is that about 2.1 billion yen — or more than $19 million — in taxpayer funds is spent on a religious ceremony.
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The Swamp Flyers Act prohibits executive branch officials from using private jets with taxpayer funds unless they certify that no commercial flights were available.
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A pair of House Democrats unveiled legislation on Thursday that would prohibit the use of taxpayer funds to display Confederate symbols on federal property.
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And to use taxpayer funds and the might of the American state to pursue a political enemy would count as an abuse of power.
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A Washington Post analysis of EPA travel records shows Pruitt's use of taxpayer funds on first-class flights and luxury hotels exceeded his predecessors.
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"The Committee does not believe that U.S. taxpayer funds should be used to personally enrich President Trump, his family, and his companies," Cummings said.
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A House committee voted Tuesday to pass a resolution that would allow members to pay for bulletproof vests and security personnel using taxpayer funds.
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Reports also surfaced that Farenthold used taxpayer funds to settle a 2014 lawsuit with a former aide who said the congressman sexually harassed her.
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The percentage of Puerto Rico's taxpayer funds spent on debt payments will fall to less than 9%, compared to almost 30% before the restructuring.
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While of course private groups should have the freedom to express religious viewpoints, they should not be able to unfairly discriminate with taxpayer funds.
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Supporters argue the "Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act" (PROMESA) would not use any taxpayer funds to help the island reschedule its debt.
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"Cutting off U.S. taxpayer funds to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) — "which has a long history of involvement in China's brutal birth limitation policy.
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The Modi government, warning of a growing problem with bad bank loans, last fall pledged $32 billion in taxpayer funds to bail out weak lenders.
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The Trump administration has moved to change how taxpayer funds go towards family planning organizations, especially those that provide or encourage patients to have abortions.
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" Per the Inquirer, Meehan said "he was advised by House lawyers that the settlement was a possibility and that he could legally use taxpayer funds.
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Planned Parenthood has said without taxpayer funds, women would lose access to mammograms and that the group is essential to providing prenatal care for women.
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The government, which now owns less than 10 percent of Lloyds, has recovered some 16 billion pounds of taxpayer funds to date from share sales.
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"Embrace of radical left complete, Biden flips on taxpayer funds for abortion," reads an email blasted out Thursday night by the Republican National Committee (RNC).
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Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) proposed an amendment to a federal spending package that would prohibit taxpayer funds from being used at businesses owned by Trump.
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The agreement takes the total amount of Italian taxpayer funds deployed to rescue banks over the past few weeks to more than 20 billion euros.
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The White House will have little tolerance for even a whiff of further evidence that Shulkin has been improperly using taxpayer funds for personal activities.
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Cardin said he was not yet prepared to make a judgment on whether U.S. taxpayer funds should be used to help Pakistan with the purchase.
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That made Pruitt a constant foil to Democratic lawmakers and environmentalists, but he soon became notorious for something else: spending taxpayer funds on questionable expenses.
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The EPA originally said that Pruitt had obtained a waiver of federal standards that limit officials' ability to book first-class flights with taxpayer funds.
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Shulkin is one of several Cabinet officials who have faced ethics questions over misuse of taxpayer funds, with his relating to an expensive European trip.
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An emergency declaration could infringe on Congress' authority to make major decisions about taxpayer funds, a fundamental check and balance spelled out in the Constitution.
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It will be followed by the Milwaukee Bucks' $524 million arena, financed with $250 million in taxpayer funds, which is set to open next year.
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Pat Meehan will not seek reelection this year, after revelations that he used taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment case involving a former staffer.
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Tom Price had to step down from his Health and Human Services post because of his habit of funding private jet travel with taxpayer funds.
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The reports led to an avalanche of calls from Democrats investigating the visit and probing if taxpayer funds were being directed to benefit the president.
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Last year, Danilo's administration acquired the electronic voting machines that were used in the halted February vote for a whopping $19 million using taxpayer funds.
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"I would remind Secretary Price that taxpayer funds are not meant to be used as a jet-setting slush fund," Pallone said in a statement.
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My 85033 amendment to the Department of Justice appropriations bill, which denied taxpayer funds to sanctuary cities, did not get majority support even among Republicans.
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The legislation would require any member of Congress found liable for harassment to pay settlements themselves, rather than with taxpayer funds, as the current process allows.
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Operating on a budget of $10 million in taxpayer funds , Mueller and his team have conducted thousands of hours of interviews and collected millions of documents.
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The slowdown comes amid a series of government probes in more than a dozen states into allegations ranging from misuse of taxpayer funds to visa fraud.
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But though this bailout involved the participation of government officials as organizers and guarantors, no actual taxpayer funds were expended and no congressional action was needed.
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Wilkie's confirmation marked the VA's first Senate-confirmed secretary since Trump fired David Shulkin in March following months of controversy over allegations of abusing taxpayer funds.
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The Ohio law signed in February by Republican Governor John Kasich stripped $1.3 million in federal taxpayer funds from any healthcare organization that provides abortion services.
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Harper told members that his panel had discovered one case so far since 2013 involving sexual harassment settled by the Office of Compliance with taxpayer funds.
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The church sued after being denied state taxpayer funds for a playground improvement project because of a Missouri constitutional provision barring state funding for religious entities.
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Legal experts say the president's actions make him vulnerable to numerous charges, including campaign-finance violations, bribery, extortion, obstruction of justice, and misappropriation of taxpayer funds.
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Italy's prime minister, Matteo Renzi, wants to use about $45 billion in Italian taxpayer funds to shore up Italian banks and head off an economic crisis.
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Kennedy's office said he is the first lawmaker to call on Verma's resignation in light of reports that raise questions about her stewardship of taxpayer funds.
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"The Committee does not believe that U.S. taxpayer funds should be used to personally enrich President Trump, his family, and his companies," Oversight chairman, Democratic Rep.
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A group of more than 60 conservative leaders called Friday for House GOP leadership to prevent lawmakers from using taxpayer funds to settle sexual harassment cases.
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The USPS has largely avoided use of direct taxpayer funds since 1982, as a result of the reorganized that followed an eight-day wildcat strike in 1970.
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Months after admitting to using $84,000 in taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit — and promising to pay back the Treasury within the week — Republican Rep.
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"We need a strong, independent, and experienced higher-ed enforcement chief who is up to the task of protecting billions of dollars in taxpayer funds," said Sen.
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Critics argued that it was a misuse of taxpayer funds that left vulnerable people open to exploitation, while others said that sexual expression is a human right.
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After 16 years of constant combat, trillions of dollars in taxpayer funds spent, and tens of thousands of casualties, the American people were attracted to that message.
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And if Trump did in fact use military aid as a bargaining chip, he could also be impeached on charges of extortion and misappropriation of taxpayer funds.
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The questions about Schock's use of taxpayer funds first emerged after a Washington Post story that described his elaborately decorated office, with a price tag of $40,000.
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According to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report, the State Department provided $465,000 in U.S. taxpayer funds in an effort to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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"This is yet another example of the Trump Administration's illegal and unacceptable use of taxpayer funds for political gain," Pallone, who requested the report, wrote on Twitter.
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John Jay Shannon, chief executive officer of the Cook County Health & Hospitals System, says his hospitals needed $481 million in local taxpayer funds in fiscal year 2009.
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Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight committees announced Friday that they had sent letters requesting documents about efforts to promote spending taxpayer funds at Trump's properties.
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Jackie Speier of California accused Trump of squandering taxpayer funds in a desperate bid to buy votes, and predicted the American people would see through the plan.
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On Thursday, liberal watchdog group American Integrity asked the federal Office of Special Counsel to investigate whether Pruitt's use of taxpayer funds for the trips was illegal.
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That suit was settled using taxpayer funds, but the sum involved was not disclosed until last week, as multiple lawmakers are facing accusations of past sexual misconduct.
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A Democrat's proposed amendments to an upcoming federal spending package on the House floor would prohibit taxpayer funds from being used at businesses owned by President Trump.
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"The Committee does not believe that U.S. taxpayer funds should be used to personally enrich President Trump, his family, and his companies," wrote Oversight chairman, Democratic Rep.
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Representative Betty McCollum, Democrat of Minnesota, has gathered 31 co-sponsors for a bill that would bar taxpayer funds from going to Israeli military detention of children.
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House Democrats, for example, passed a sweeping anti-corruption bill that included provisions to bar members of Congress from using taxpayer funds to settle sexual harassment lawsuits.
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Over the past 20 years, Congress has paid $17.2 million of taxpayer funds in settlements to victims for violations including sexual harassment, the Washington Post reported last week.
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We don't have the right to expect that taxpayer funds will be used to provide us a computer and Internet access, a place to worship, or a rifle.
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We believe this is a new one, though, because it deals with an insidious effort by a governmental entity, if you will, a school paid by taxpayer funds.
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Amid budget crises across the state, the supplies for clinics were offered through "gifted research funds," and not taxpayer funds, while the teams volunteered their time, Langlois said.
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The office has kept information about the offices and lawmakers who've been accused of wrongdoing in the workplace from the public, despite using taxpayer funds for case settlements.
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The report recommends reforming the OLA to limit its use, reduce the discretionary powers it affords bank regulators, and minimize the use of taxpayer funds to facilitate it.
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Mueller may have evidence that will result in actual indictments that have something to do with his original task and that justify his continued spending of taxpayer funds.
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Passage came one day after President Trump issued an executive action prohibiting the use of taxpayer funds for nongovernmental organizations that provide abortion services or support abortion rights.
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Yet these future uncertainties must be weighed against the clearly untenable status quo, and against the immorality of U.S. taxpayer funds being used to finance and reward terrorism.
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Because the virus can cause severe birth defects in babies of infected mothers, Republicans have had concerns that taxpayer funds might somehow be used to help provide abortions.
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Since the settlement made by Conyers became public, lawmakers have been jumping at the opportunity to introduce or sign onto bills to ban similar uses of taxpayer funds.
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"They're providing social services with taxpayer funds and yet they are not required to serve the members of the public whose taxes are providing those services," Oakley said.
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But the European Union's see-no-evil approach to the misuse of billions in taxpayer funds is an unnecessary, patronizing and self-defeating concession to the new members.
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Former HHS Secretary Tom Price, former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, and former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke all resigned over scandals of their use of taxpayer funds.
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Ashford touted the measure as a way to cut congressional "privileges and perks," which would also include eliminating lawmakers' pensions and using taxpayer funds for first-class airfare.
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Ryan also told Meehan to repay any taxpayer funds, reported to total thousands, used to settle a former female aide's claim that Meehan had made unwanted sexual advances.
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Yet the Met is considered a public institution, because the city provides about $26 million a year in taxpayer funds to the museum and also owns the building.
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"Apparently $3 million and a 26-bedroom home isn&apost enough for them," he added, referring to taxpayer funds that the couple spent on their Frogmore Cottage home.
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Scott just last week signed a law that strips taxpayer funds from health clinics that provide abortions and increases regulations for the procedure, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
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But this argument has not spared the university from criticism for outsourcing the jobs because — as a public institution — it receives taxpayer funds and is a nonprofit organization.
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Live Action, whose website asks visitors to sign a petition asking that taxpayer funds for Planned Parenthood be cut off, has targeted the organization for nearly a decade.
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The Dodd-Frank OLA provision gives regulators special powers to wind down a complex financial institution in an orderly manner, including temporarily using taxpayer funds to provide emergency liquidity.
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Legislation introduced in the House on Thursday would prevent the use of taxpayer funds to pay for any expenses at places owned by President Trump and his family. Rep.
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It turns out that when countries said they wouldn't make a deal without a waiver – even extremely wealthy countries – the DOD gave away taxpayer funds without a second thought.
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When unelected bureaucrats misuse, mismanage and misallocate taxpayer funds, it not only takes resources away from vital government functions, it continually weakens citizens' faith and trust in their government.
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The problem is that Conyers and his colleagues are not ethically entitled to the use of taxpayer funds and congressional facilities to keep matters quiet and out of court.
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It must ensure all telecom carriers are properly monitored while receiving subsidies and must act swiftly against the misuse, or suspected misuse, of taxpayer funds and suspend them accordingly.
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He proposed measures like preventing taxpayer funds from being used for settlements and prohibiting confidentiality agreements that perpetuate a culture of silence, while still protecting the privacy of survivors.
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After an Instagram user named Jenni Miller commented on the use of taxpayer funds for the plane, saying, "glad we could pay for your little getaway," Linton fired back.
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" At the same time, the bishops said they liked two sections that seek to "prohibit the use of taxpayer funds to pay for abortion or plans that cover it.
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Won't you look at that: Mike Pence used *taxpayer funds* - not personal ones - to spend several thousand haircuts' worth of public money on a visit to Trump golf courses.
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"Apparently $3 million and a 26-bedroom home isn&apost enough for them," he said, in reference to taxpayer funds that the couple spent towards their Frogmore Cottage home.
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In the letter, Abbott accused Farenthold of "wrongly" using taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment claim against him, a scandal which eventually led to Farenthold's resignation from Congress.
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Y.) and Dwight Evans (D-Pa.) also unveiled a bill last week that would ban the use of taxpayer funds to display or maintain Confederate symbols on federal property.
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The report found that Shulkin wrongly accepted tickets to the Wimbledon tennis tournament in London, and used taxpayer funds to travel to Europe, which cost a total of $122,000.
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Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight and Reform committees announced Friday that they had sent letters requesting documents about efforts to promote spending taxpayer funds at Trump's properties.
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Farenthold resigned from the House after it was revealed last year that he had used $84,85033 worth of taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment claim three years ago.
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Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Wednesday is the Committee's third attempt at demanding documents related to the requests for information on U.S. taxpayer funds spent at the golf resort.
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Congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle have pushed back on the bailout label, and the bill expressly prohibits federal taxpayer funds from paying down Puerto Rico's debt.
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The Trump administration said in July it would spend up to $230 billion in taxpayer funds to help U.S. farmers offset trade-related losses, although the aid package could shrink.
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When the Supreme Court declined in March to step into a religious liberty dispute concerning whether taxpayer funds can be used for the historic preservation of churches, Kavanaugh wrote separately.
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But in at least one respect, Amazon's Hunger Games-style civic competition backfired: It's shined a spotlight on how Amazon and companies like it have benefited enormously from taxpayer funds.
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The case came to light following a newspaper article in 2012 that involved allegations that Hastert was using taxpayer funds for personal use, FBI Special Agent Michael Anderson told CNN.
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" It also said it never submitted a false claim or misused federal taxpayer funds, and "only reimbursed Joined a portion of the actual costs it incurred in performing the agreement.
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Rep. Blake Farenthold resigned from Congress in April after admitting to using $84,503 in taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit (money he has said he will not repay).
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"This proposal does not necessarily defund Planned Parenthood, as long as they're willing to disentangle taxpayer funds from abortion as a method of family planning," a Trump administration official said.
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Early Tim Kaine (while mayor of Richmond): was a champion of gun control and used taxpayer funds to rent buses to send gun-control advocates to a rally in Washington.
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Through his executive order, which the president referred to as "iron clad," no taxpayer funds could be used to pay for, encourage or offer insurance policies that paid for abortions.
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House votes to permanently ban taxpayer funds for abortion: The House passed legislation on Tuesday that would permanently codify existing law banning the use of federal funds for abortion services.
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An advertising campaign, believed to be backed by creditors, charged that the legislation was a taxpayer bailout of Puerto Rico, though no taxpayer funds would be provided through the legislation.
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The segment also had an investigative function, in one case shedding light on a little-examined law change that allowed members of Congress to use taxpayer funds for radio advertisements.
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" Blackburn thanked the woman for being "courageous" in telling her story, but said she "stands firmly in my belief that taxpayer funds ought not to be used for abortion services.
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The department's lawyers said that the portraits cost $25,000 each and that federal law prohibited the use of taxpayer funds "for the painting of a portrait" of any government official.
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Also absent from the Senate bill were proposals from Monday's $2.5 trillion House bill that sought commitments from the airline industry to reduce their emissions in exchange for taxpayer funds.
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It's worth noting that even Biden has come out in favor of opening government insurance programs to the undocumented, allowing taxpayer funds to subsidize abortions, and ending the death penalty.
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This approach has the added benefit of showing citizens that Congress will take a break from the money game while they are doing the important business of allocating taxpayer funds.
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"The Republican 'memo' is an obvious after-the-fact effort to cover up for an outrageous misuse of taxpayer funds," said Mike Murphy, a spokesman for the Senate Democratic Conference.
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Either Treasury used taxpayer funds to conduct analyses it won't release because they contradict Mnuchin's claims that this bill grows the economy, or Mnuchin misled the public about the analysis.
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He has made it clear that our full focus should be on, and our taxpayer funds should go towards, public school classrooms where the overwhelming majority of American students attend.
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Former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned over investigations into their misuse of taxpayer funds for travel and other controversies.
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Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) used taxpayer funds to reach a $2628,28500 settlement with his former communications director in 6900 after she accused him of sexual harassment, according to Politico.
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It also barred legislators from using taxpayer money to cover harassment settlements — last year, a report revealed that nearly $22017,503 of taxpayer funds had been used for that purpose since 250.
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"This proposal does not necessarily defund Planned Parenthood, as long as they're willing to disentangle taxpayer funds from abortion as a method of family planning," an administration official told Fox News .
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"This proposal does not necessarily defund Planned Parenthood, as long as they're willing to disentangle taxpayer funds from abortion as a method of family planning," an administration official told Fox News.
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This legislation would prohibit the use of any taxpayer funds to pay for food, lodging, or other expenses at hotels owned or operated by a president or his or her relatives.
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Final 2019 payment rates and policies for Part D drug coverage and Medicare Advantage insurance plans, which consume about $300 billion of taxpayer funds each year, will be announced April 2.
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"Any proposed changes would ensure that the government takes the responsibility of being good stewards of taxpayer funds seriously and adjudicates immigration benefit requests in accordance with the law," she added.
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" Pressed by CNN's Chris Cuomo on whether he believed taxpayer funds should be used to cover the costs of sexual misconduct settlements involving lawmakers and their staffers, Lance bluntly replied, "no.
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Yet Representative Blake Farenthold of Texas appears to be under little pressure, even though he used $84,000 in taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment claim with his former communications director.
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"We must still be considerate of perceptions of not being good stewards of taxpayer funds that might be created through the appearance of aircrew staying at such locations," the spokesperson said.
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WASHINGTON — Representative Blake Farenthold, the Texas Republican who used $84,000 in taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment case with his former communications director, abruptly resigned from Congress on Friday afternoon.
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John Conyers (D-Mich.), the dean of the House, resigned after it was revealed he allegedly harassed three female aides and used $27,000 in taxpayer funds to settle one case. Rep.
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Pallone told reporters today that he agreed with Democrats, including some on his committee, who have called for Verma to lose her job over questions about her stewardship of taxpayer funds.
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Legal experts told Insider that Trump could be impeached on a number of charges based on his actions, including violating campaign-finance laws, bribery, extortion, obstruction, and misappropriation of taxpayer funds.
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The Appalachian School of Law, which opened in the 46093s in the shell of Grundy Junior High School, was heralded as a new economic engine, lubricated — of course — with taxpayer funds.
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Among the improvements proposed include barring members from the use of taxpayer funds to settle any future sexual harassment settlements and creating a more streamlined process for individuals to report claims.
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But when migrants and refugees — many of whom have indeed survived abuse and persecution — seek emergency contraception in religiously affiliated shelters they are denied care despite these shelters receiving taxpayer funds.
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"The president and his cabinet are working collaboratively as we speak to create a budget that keeps the president's promises to secure the country and prioritize taxpayer funds," Mr. Czwartacki said.
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"The president and his cabinet are working collaboratively as we speak to create a budget that keeps the president's promises to secure the country and prioritize taxpayer funds," the statement said.
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U.S. lawmakers are also increasingly expressing concerns that U.S. taxpayer funds loaned through the World Bank to China will enable human rights abuses and unfair economic competition with the United States.
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Some changes, for instance, could leave students largely learning on their own from self-help YouTube-style videos and allow the companies responsible unfettered access to a spigot of taxpayer funds.
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Vice Media sacked three employees for "verbal and sexual harassment" and it was revealed that a Texas lawmaker, Blake Farenthold, used $84,000 in taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment claim.
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To be sure, Democrats might disagree and believe that taxpayer funds should be provided to Ukraine — but they lost the White House in the 2016 election and don't get to decide.
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McWilliams also said regulators were considering "refinements" to Orderly Liquidation Authority, another post-crisis tool that allows regulators to temporarily use taxpayer funds to facilitate an orderly dissolution of a failing bank.
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They've both also proposed ending the Hyde Amendment, language included in US spending bills since 1994 that bans the use of taxpayer funds for abortion except in cases of rape and incest.
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"This is using taxpayer funds to pay state contractors to discriminate based on their religious beliefs," said Currey Cook, counsel in the National Headquarters Office of Lambda Legal, a civil rights group.
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"We're suing President Trump to stop him from unilaterally robbing taxpayer funds lawfully set aside by Congress for the people of our states," California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement.
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Video "This proposal does not necessarily defund Planned Parenthood, as long as they're willing to disentangle taxpayer funds from abortion as a method of family planning," an administration official told Fox News.
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Hot Mess told Vox that Drag Queen Story Hour operates largely without taxpayer funds — all a library needs to host one is a children's book and a drag queen willing to volunteer.
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Why it matters: This is "one of the first concrete signs" that the president's use of Mar-a-Lago "resulted in taxpayer funds flowing directly into...his private business," the Post says.
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Trump boasted on Twitter that he had $1.6 billion of taxpayer funds for the start of his signature border wall project – contrary to his campaign pledge that Mexico would pay for it.
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Unhappy with that amount—he had requested $5.7 billion from Congress—Trump said on Friday that he will sign a national emergency to access billions more in taxpayer funds for his wall.
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Pruitt and the EPA have cited security concerns to justify him using taxpayer funds to fly in first or business class, despite government standards meant to limit official travel to coach class.
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"It's an abuse of power to use taxpayer funds to basically cover up their actions and then leave and make a profit off their time in Congress," Walker told the Huffington Post.
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Farenthold is facing scrutiny over his use of taxpayer funds to settle a 2014 lawsuit with Greene, who claims the Texas Republican sexually harassed her and fostered an overall hostile work environment.
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Meehan announced last month that he will not seek reelection this year, after The New York Times reported that he used taxpayer funds to settle a harassment complaint by a former staffer.
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By some estimates, that bill could approach $2.5 million, and a petition from an anti-monarchy group demanding that no taxpayer funds be used for the event has netted nearly 35,000 signatures.
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As President Trump vows to lower prescription drug prices, consumer advocates and health policy experts are increasingly saying that the government should insist on reasonable prices for drugs developed with taxpayer funds.
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"This proposal does not necessarily defund Planned Parenthood, as long as they're willing to disentangle taxpayer funds from abortion as a method of family planning," an administration official said at the time.
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The report seen by Reuters is the work of a group commissioned by Kelly as a final step before moving forward with requesting U.S. taxpayer funds from Congress and getting started on construction.
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Even when Farenthold and Greene reached a settlement in November 2015, the case stayed paused — most likely because the Ethics Committee was unaware that Farenthold had used taxpayer funds to settle the case.
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"The president and his Cabinet are working collaboratively as we seek to create a budget that keeps the president's promises to secure the country and prioritize taxpayer funds," Czwartacki told the Washington Post.
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"Based on this new revelation, it is clear that the Republican investigations are nothing more than a transparent political attempt to use taxpayer funds to target the Democratic candidate for President," Cummings said.
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Trump has called climate change a hoax, and said he would rip up the 2015 Paris deal, halt any U.S. taxpayer funds for U.N. global warming programs, and revive the U.S. coal sector.
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"We are glad that the EPA Office of Inspector General is looking into this issue to determine whether taxpayer funds were spent appropriately," said Sylvia Lam, an attorney for the Environmental Integrity Project.
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If Donald Trump or future presidents and officials avoid accountability for the use of government influence and taxpayer funds to obtain help from foreign sources in U.S. elections, those elections will be compromised.
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Whether it's used in reference to the spendthrift Congressional committees or simply to describe the expenditure of taxpayer funds, it might as well be a four-letter word in the limited-government movement.
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Allegations of widespread corruption and the raiding of taxpayer funds by outside interests — known locally as 'state capture' — have dented investor confidence in an economy which fell into a recession earlier in 2017.
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Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union spent over $1 million in taxpayer funds on personal home renovations to his residences in both Washington, DC, and Brussels, government contracting records show.
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In October, Sondland came under fire for spending more than $1 million in taxpayer funds on personal home renovations to his residences in both Washington, DC, and Brussels, Business Insider's Grace Panetta reported.
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The Post reported that aside from distrusting his senior staff, Shulkin has also faced threats following a blistering VA inspector general report that found he misused taxpayer funds during a trip to Europe.
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Rather, the legislation exercises the state's right to choose with whom it will contract, recognizing that such prudence when spending taxpayer funds is an important part of upholding California's economic interests and values.
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"Pauses in obligational authority are necessary for proper stewardship of taxpayer funds," Paoletta said, adding that pauses like this are different from "deferrals," which the President is prohibited from doing without notifying Congress.
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Many governments around the world have or are in the process of creating requirements for spending taxpayer funds more responsibly with an eye on long-term growth and modernization of government-funded infrastructure.
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A CMS spokesperson said Verma had no hostile feelings toward Price, who left his job in the fall of 2017, after a controversy involving his use of taxpayer funds for private air travel.
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Making sure that taxpayers don't overpay businesses for their services is a legitimate concern, but this bill would also ensure that taxpayer funds are also used to reward companies that treat workers well.
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Allegations of widespread corruption and the raiding of taxpayer funds by outside interests - known locally as 'state capture' - have further dented investor confidence in an economy which fell into a recession earlier in 2017.
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The House of Representatives used $342,123 in taxpayer funds to settle 15 cases of various workplace discrimination accusations between 2008 and 2012, according to new data released on Tuesday by the House Administration Committee.
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But German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been reluctant to commit to anything that could see the transfer of taxpayer funds to other countries, including in the form of a deposit insurance scheme for banks.
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Chaotic Trump transition leaks: Debates must tackle how Democrats will govern differently MORE resigned Friday after it was revealed he had spent more than $400,000 in taxpayer funds on private jets for government travel.
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And if Trump did, in fact, use military aid as a bargaining chip — as Mulvaney might have suggested he did — he could also be impeached on charges of extortion and misappropriation of taxpayer funds.
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When asked whether stripping the officials of their clearances could be grounds for impeachment, Wyden told Burnett that all options would be on the table if Trump used taxpayer funds to retaliate against critics.
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After 22 months and more than $25 million in taxpayer funds, we now know what many of us suspected all along: There was no collusion, coordination, or cooperation between President Trump's campaign and Russia.
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If Trump did, in fact, use military aid as a bargaining chip, as many officials have testified under oath, he could also be impeached on charges of extortion, bribery, and misappropriation of taxpayer funds.
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Neither taxpayer funds nor the pension contributions of any public school educator — such as the three California teachers slain in Las Vegas — should be invested in the purveyors of banned military-style assault weapons.
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The second was that "the lack of effort by IRS employees to exercise prudence and economy when utilizing taxpayer funds is concerning" and appears to be in violation of federal travel regulations, Hatch said.
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"Local governments often don't feel comfortable using taxpayer funds to pay a criminal, especially when they consider where those funds may be going," said Jason Rebholz, a vice president at Icebrg, a security firm.
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In February, his government launched yet another assault on Brussels, using taxpayer funds to plaster tens of thousands of posters around the country warning that European lawmakers wanted to inundate the country with migrants.
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" After Mr. Cuomo was elected attorney general, his office said in a 210 report that the rules for state-plane use were "overly permissive and porous" and allow for an "abuse of taxpayer funds.
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Building a clinic, in and of itself, does not mean the program was a successful use of taxpayer funds, especially if no Afghans use it because there are no doctors, nurses, medicines or electricity.
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The House of Representatives, which passed a bill last week authorizing assistance for Hurricane Harvey, will likely open the spigot of taxpayer funds to Puerto Rico and other areas tormented by recent mega storms.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday that the United States was supportive of the International Monetary Fund's mission, although it always wanted to make sure taxpayer funds were spent wisely.
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Many believe that Congress has an obligation to be transparent about these shush fund payments made in secret and using taxpayer funds, but so far calls for such transparency have fallen on deaf ears.
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The letter, which was facilitated by the Conservative Action Project, comes as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have backed legislation that would prohibit use of taxpayer funds to settle sexual harassment lawsuits.
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In January 2014, the Cyprus company received nearly $20 million, apparently in Republic of Congo taxpayer funds, through a contract with the country's government, according to a Portuguese police report reviewed by Global Witness.
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The decline runs counter to the steady growth over the past six years of all U.S. charter schools, which receive taxpayer funds but are exempt from some rules that govern traditional state-run public schools.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer said on Wednesday that his plan to battle air pollution in cities by retrofitting older diesel vehicles would not require taxpayer funds or money from the car owners.
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Chmielewski provided new details and corroborated other reports regarding allegations of wasteful spending of taxpayer funds and your disregard for the ethical and legal requirements of your position," the lawmakers wrote in the letter. "Mr.
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Official designation brings with it the right to spend up to £7m ($10m), to send a free mailshot to all households, to make a number of campaign broadcasts and to receive £600,000 of taxpayer funds.
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The comment by Pruitt to CBS News's "The Takeout" podcast comes as the EPA head faces scrutiny over reports that he used taxpayer funds to fly first class or on military jets on multiple occasions.
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In the first case, it ended after a needlessly delayed, three-year investigation rampant with leaks that eventually called for an outside special counsel that may have wasted more than $1 million in taxpayer funds.
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In one short stretch last June, Pruitt and his top aides spent $73,000 in taxpayer funds for their travel including a $1,641.43 first class seat on a flight from Washington, D.C., to New York City.
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In one short stretch last June, Pruitt and his top aides spent $90,000 in taxpayer funds for their travel including a $1,641.43 first class seat on a flight from Washington, D.C., to New York City.
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Last Friday, Representative Blake Farenthold, another Republican, was unmasked as the lawmaker who used $84,843 in taxpayer funds to secretly settle a lurid sexual harassment case, but Mr. Ryan has been silent on his future.
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Representative Blake Farenthold, Republican of Texas, is facing pressure after it was revealed last week that he used $84,000 in taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment claim with Lauren Greene, his former communications director.
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Arpaio, 87, was convicted in 2017 of criminal contempt of federal court in a racial profiling case after disobeying a judge's order to stop immigration raids in his capacity as sheriff with county taxpayer funds.
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The report concluded that Shulkin misused taxpayer funds and inappropriately accepted Wimbledon tickets, and that his then-chief of staff doctored an email to justify the department paying for his wife's airfare to accompany him.
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Chaotic Trump transition leaks: Debates must tackle how Democrats will govern differently MORE resigned from office after it was revealed he spent over $1 million in taxpayer funds for travel on private and military jets.
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Such an amendment could make the expenditure of U.S. taxpayer funds on any sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia contingent upon the kingdom punishing those responsible for Khashoggi's death or meeting certain human rights requirements.
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"We find that the plain language of the Religious Aid Clause bars the use of taxpayer funds to repair and restore churches, and that Morris County's program ran afoul of that longstanding provision," Justice Rabner wrote.
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"If it wasn't for the political risk, we would be on the moon right now," said the NASA chief, who is working to woo Republican and Democratic lawmakers to approve additional taxpayer funds for the program.
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Pallone notified Perry that his office was requesting a detailed accounting of the process the Department of Energy followed to develop the proposal, including records of staff meetings and taxpayer funds spent on the matter. Rep.
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After repairs, the system is said to be good to go, but there are questions about who is going to pay the Navy back after it picked up the tab for those repairs with taxpayer funds.
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At the federal level, up to 25 percent of taxpayer funds collected from excise taxes on fuel purchases and stored in the federal Highway Trust Fund is used for purposes other than building highways and bridges.
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Any solution is likely to cost several billion euros, and Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer said this week his plan would not require taxpayer funds or money from the car owners, putting the onus on carmakers instead.
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That means 6.5 million people (more than the entire population of Missouri) who will be deterred from responding and an additional $21625 million in taxpayer funds needed to conduct follow-up to ensure an accurate count.
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Queen Elizabeth II's income will almost double this year, royal accounts published Tuesday showed, amid an increase in the amount of taxpayer funds directed to the British royal family to cover extensive repairs at Buckingham Palace.
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Federal bailouts for big banks and payouts to the auto industry fueled voter resentment, especially tied to executive bonuses supported by taxpayer funds and relatively scant federal help for 2.6 million workers who lost their jobs.
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The Supreme Court on Monday said it would consider whether religious adoption agencies can turn away same-sex parents, potentially carving out a means for groups that rely on taxpayer funds to discriminate against LGBTQ people.
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On balance, many of the Trump administration's legislative principles for farm subsidies in a 2018 farm bill have much to recommend them, especially from the perspective of economic efficiency and common sense use of taxpayer funds.
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At the federal level, up to 25 percent of taxpayer funds collected from excise taxes on fuel purchases and stored in the federal Highway Trust Fund is used for purposes other than building highways and bridges.
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France, Germany and Italy counter that there are no plans for EU soldiers wearing the same uniform and that the current overlapping and uncoordinated military plans of European nations are a bigger waste of taxpayer funds.
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The scandal brought to light subsidiary issues — like whether Nixon shortchanged the Treasury on his income taxes, and used taxpayer funds to protect and improve his Florida vacation home — that have obvious correspondence to Trump's behavior.
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"Congressman Farenthold clearly has no problem with breaking his promise to the American public to repay the $84,000 in taxpayer funds he used for a settlement for his former aide," Speier said in a statement to Vox.
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For Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick, whose team agreed to a 21995-year lease in 212 in exchange for $253 million in state taxpayer funds, there was only one problem: he didn't actually have a clause like this.
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"The court's decision vindicates OFCCP's vigorous enforcement of the disclosure and anti-discrimination obligations federal contractors voluntarily accept in exchange for taxpayer funds," said Regional Solicitor Janet Herold, an official involved in the case, in a statement.
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Why it matters: Shulkin is one of several Trump administration officials facing criticism for their improper use of taxpayer funds for travel, an issue that forced Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to resign last September.
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West Virginia House lawmakers voted to impeach Loughry — and all three of his colleagues on the bench — this week after an investigation uncovered the lavish spending of taxpayer funds, overpayments to senior judges, and general judicial corruption.
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The announcement from the Government Accountability Office comes as Pruitt is under fire for his use of taxpayer funds, renting an apartment tied to an energy lobbyist and allegedly retaliating against EPA staff for questioning his decisions.
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Leveraging initial taxpayer funds and lending at below market interest rates in order to make loans attractive would put the bank's capital at risk, endangering its ability to fund future projects, even if all loans were repaid.
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The decision to hear the case could give the justices an opportunity to build on a major 2017 ruling that sided with a Missouri church and opened the door to more taxpayer funds going to religious entities.
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The justices are also accused of "wasteful spending of taxpayer funds on lavish office renovations," using public vehicles for personal matters and creating a plan to pay certain senior judges more than is lawful, the committee said .
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Since his January 2017 inauguration, Trump has worked to regulate and restrict abortion access using a series of rule changes that restrict the way taxpayer funds flow to foreign and domestic organizations that perform or promote abortions.
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Critics, however, warn that the measure would allow child welfare agencies to deny LGBTQ and religious minority applicants as adoptive or foster parents -- ultimately to the detriment of children who need homes -- while still receiving taxpayer funds.
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"While you have publicly offered to reimburse the $2628,28503 in taxpayer funds you wrongly used to settle a sexual harassment claim, there is no legal recourse requiring you to give that money back to Congress," Abbott wrote.
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Ryan told Meehan he must repay whatever taxpayer funds were used to settle the case and, although he has denied the allegations, be investigated by the Ethics Committee, Ryan spokesperson AshLee Strong said in a statement Saturday.
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As Congress seems poised to inject more taxpayer funds into the ACA black hole through bailouts of the health insurance companies, states led by Texas continue to pursue the proper path that Washington, DC, won't — dismantling ObamaCare.
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Washington (CNN)Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has used taxpayer funds to purchase first-class airfare and spend nights at luxury hotels more often than his predecessors, according to records first analyzed by The Washington Post.
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In this era of health care cost containment, non-profit patient assistance programs help to maintain the health and financial stability of patients, but they do so with charitable donations rather than through government or taxpayer funds.
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The omnibus "provides additional flexibility to the services to spend operation and maintenance funding, as requested by the Department of Defense, while still ensuring accountability of the disbursement of taxpayer funds," a summary of the bill reads.
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" Shulkin's departure comes after the White House was routinely questioned by reporters in recent weeks about Shulkin's and other cabinet secretaries' improper use of taxpayer funds and how that aligned with Trump's campaign promise to "drain the swamp.
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"You're now saying that the First Amendment not only permits but requires the government to use taxpayer funds for a church," said Greg Lipper, a former senior litigation counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
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Trump and Vice President Pence are exempt from the Hatch Act, but CREW noted that if a trip mixes both official and political events, the campaign must reimburse the federal government for taxpayer funds used for unofficial events.
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The Office of Compliance, which has typically not made public breakdowns of how it spends taxpayer funds, has been under increasing pressure to do so by lawmakers and those outside of Congress who have called for more transparency.
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Democratic-controlled cities such as Las Cruces, New Mexico are using tax dollars to shelter migrants while Republican-controlled Otero County, New Mexico passed a resolution against housing migrants and the use of taxpayer funds to do so.
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"This proposal does not necessarily defund Planned Parenthood, as long as they're willing to disentangle taxpayer funds from abortion as a method of family planning, which is required by the Title X law," said a Trump administration official.
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Over the course of the two day debate over the bill, the House approved dozens of amendments that ranged from allowing lawmakers to use taxpayer funds for residential security to blocking a new round of military installation closures.
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The Office of Compliance has not typically made public breakdowns of how it spends taxpayer funds, but has been under increasing pressure to do so by lawmakers and those outside of Congress who have called for more transparency.
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For example, a 22016 provision known as the Dickey Amendment effectively barred the Centers for Disease Control from tapping taxpayer funds set aside for injury prevention and control for research that could be used for gun control advocacy.
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Katie Waldman, a spokeswoman for the department, said that any changes that are made would ensure that the government is careful in how it spends taxpayer funds as it upholds current laws in processing benefit requests by immigrants.
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Here are the lawmakers who chose to leave Congress after harassment allegations, and the state of the races for their seats: Meehan settled a harassment claim with taxpayer funds last year, The New York Times first reported Saturday.
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Shulkin has been working to clear his name and restore confidence in his leadership since the inspector general report found that he and senior members of his staff misled agency ethics officials and that Shulkin misused taxpayer funds.
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Pruitt has been involved in a handful controversies in his time at EPA, including spending more than $85033,000 in taxpayer funds on first-class travel and paying more than $40,000 to put a soundproof booth in his office.
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Oldaker asked the co-founder of the firm, Vincent Versage, to teach Hunter the basics of earmarking—the practice of persuading lawmakers to insert language into legislation which directs taxpayer funds to projects that benefit the lobbyist's clients.
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"I would remind Secretary Price that taxpayer funds are not meant to be used as a jet-setting slush fund," Representative Frank Pallone Jr., the top-ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said in a statement.
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From the Dickey-Wicker amendment, which prohibits federal funding for destructive human embryo experimentation to the gold standard of pro-life riders, the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funds within Medicare going to pay for abortions in most cases.
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"The planning and coordination of these events must be thoroughly investigated, and the White House must immediately halt the abuse of government resources for political gain and ensure that any improperly used taxpayer funds are appropriately reimbursed," Bookbinder added.
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" [Riverfront Times] Call her: (2573) 2756-8163 | Email her Climate change denier "In the same month the regulatory plan was released, the president also pledged to give $2816 billion in taxpayer funds to the United Nations' Green Climate Fund.
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"The Committee does not believe that U.S. taxpayer funds should be used to personally enrich President Trump, his family, and his companies," Cummings wrote, saying the stay could be a potential conflict of interest and violate the U.S. Constitution.
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Ben Carson's insistence on spending taxpayer funds on a $31,000 dining set is ridiculous; his proposal to sharply raise housing costs for hundreds of thousands of needy American families, tripling rents for some of the poorest households, is vicious.
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The next day, that coal state's senior senator, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, declared at a news conference his support for a bill to redirect taxpayer funds set aside to clean up abandoned mining sites to rescue the UMW's pension.
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"The committee does not believe that U.S. taxpayer funds should be used to personally enrich President Trump, his family, and his companies," wrote Representative Elijah E. Cummings, Democrat of Maryland and the chairman of the Oversight and Reform Committee.
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In official statements, interviews, internal memos, congressional briefings and elsewhere, VA has vigorously defended its continued use of taxpayer funds for painful dog experiments with sweeping claims about their alleged necessity that are simply not supported by the evidence.
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In all but one of those states -- Alabama -- the laws protect organizations that receive taxpayer funds to perform services on the state's behalf, such as screening prospective parents to care for foster children or finding homes for foster children.
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When you're buying uniforms for the army of a country that's largely desert, picking camouflage designed for tropical forests is a really bad misuse of taxpayer funds — no matter how much the country's minister of defense likes the print.
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From 2006 to 2015, health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers that run Medicare's prescription drug program reaped $9.1 billion in additional taxpayer funds because they overestimated how much their members would spend on drugs, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price stepped down Friday, in the midst of a snowballing scandal over his repeated use of taxpayer funds for extravagant air travel while in office, including for trips that combined government and personal business.
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A spokesman for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested Hunter would regret the move while referencing reports earlier this week that the chamber's ethics watchdog found Hunter had used taxpayer funds to pay for his pet rabbit's airfare.
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The nation's top court last addressed the matter in 2017, when it found that it was discriminatory for states to block taxpayer funds to religious schools, but limited their opinion in a footnote to the very specific case of playground resurfacing.
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"There are several regulations designed to prevent the misuse of taxpayer funds and to prevent a supervisor from misusing the time of or accepting an improper gift from a subordinate employee, whose salary is paid by American taxpayers," the senators wrote.
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In some cases, those trips were planned for months with the help of influential Washington, D.C., lobbyists, the Post reports, raising further questions about Pruitt's use of taxpayer funds and proximity to lobbyists who may have business before the agency.
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"Any proposed changes would ensure that the government takes the responsibility of being good stewards of taxpayer funds seriously and adjudicates immigration benefit requests in accordance with the law," said a DHS spokesperson who confirmed that changes are in the works.
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"Public disclosure of this information, and the amount of taxpayer funds spent to buy the devices, directly advances the Freedom of Information Law's purpose of informing a robust public debate about government actions," the NYCLU writes in a court filing.
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The revelation about the request, which was first disclosed by ABC News, quickly drew a backlash on social media, with critics accusing Mr. Mnuchin, a multimillionaire former hedge fund manager, of seeking to use taxpayer funds to finance his personal travel.
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Tom Price, the secretary of health and human services, said on Saturday that he did not plan to travel on private jets until the department's inspector general completes a formal review of the use of taxpayer funds for his chartered flights.
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After it was revealed he used taxpayer funds to settle a sexual misconduct claim against him, the Pennsylvania GOP asked him not to return to the House, lest he hurt the party's chances in his district or other competitive districts there.
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With full knowledge of these market realities, however, Wheeler, Murray and the Trump administration are adamant on using taxpayer funds to create rules to prop them up -- and for releasing some photos that highlighted this fact, I was let go.
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"It is outrageous that President Trump's transition team and Vice President Pence's office in the White House refused to even speak to the nonpartisan auditors at GAO about [how] they spent taxpayer funds during the transition," said Cummings in a statement.
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The head of the new agency would initially report to Geithner, and Barofsky recalled a hearing in which Warren aggressively questioned Geithner about his treatment of the insurance company A.I.G., which had paid its traders generous bonuses after taking taxpayer funds.
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"The data provided by the Department now indicates that U.S. taxpayer funds have been used to pay for more than three dozen separate stays involving hundreds of nights of rooms — all after the president was sworn into office," the lawmakers write.
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Washington (CNN)Days after The New York Times reported that Pat Meehan had used taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment claim brought by a former staffer, the Pennsylvania Republican congressman decided to give an interview to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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"The data provided by the Department now indicates that U.S. taxpayer funds have been used to pay for more than three dozen separate stays involving hundreds of nights of rooms -- all after the president was sworn into office," the lawmakers write.
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On Thursday, CNN reported that Trump is planning to get Congress to appropriate taxpayer funds to foot the bill for the border-wall construction, breaking from his mantra-esque promise to "build the wall" and get Mexico to pay for it.
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Documents obtained by BuzzFeed revealed that former staffers said that Conyers used taxpayer funds to fly women to him; a lawyer who used to work for him said he verbally abused her and appeared at a meeting in his underwear.
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U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to close the southern U.S. border unless Congress agrees to provide $5 billion in taxpayer funds for a border wall with Mexico, blaming Democrats for a partial government shutdown over the spending issue.
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The House bill would not involve the use of taxpayer funds to bail out Puerto Rico, a U.S. island-territory that suffers from a shrinking economy, a 45 percent poverty rate and a heavy flow of residents moving to the U.S. mainland.
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President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to close the southern U.S. border unless Congress agrees to provide $5 billion in taxpayer funds for a border wall with Mexico, blaming Democrats for a partial government shutdown that he previously said would be on him.
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India in June shelved a plan to sell a majority stake in Air India due to lack of interest from bidders, in the latest setback to its ambitious efforts to rescue the ailing airline that has survived for years using taxpayer funds.
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TRUMP, SPEAKING AT PRO-LIFE GALA, URGES SUPPORTERS TO VOTE &aposFOR LIFE,&apos GOP "These changes will protect the unborn and prevent Title X taxpayer funds from being used to support abortion providers like Planned Parenthood," House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared poised to expand religious rights and potentially narrow the separation of church and state after liberal and conservative justices alike signalled support for a church denied Missouri taxpayer funds for a playground project.
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Arguably, NASA is failing to deliver on its obligations to fulfill proper Freedom of Information Act requests, meaning the public may be missing out on information that is important to understanding the organization and how it functions, and how it spends taxpayer funds.
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We should begin by shifting the useless waste of taxpayer funds in a silly border wall into greater investment into the Alliance for Prosperity, into our law enforcement efforts, and into diplomacy which will ensure ever less corrupt and more responsive governments.
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One of Sarah Palin's best talking points as John McCain's running mate was her pledge to sell the jet on eBay that had been purchased for the state of Alaska by her predecessor as governor because it was a waste of taxpayer funds.
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"I'm troubled that in a state made up of 40% people of color, our leadership continues to openly sanction the use of taxpayer funds to endorse a neo-Confederate agenda," Mississippi Rising Coalition President Lea Campbell in a Facebook post promoting the event.
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Recent years' examples of such projects include: When the NSF awards taxpayer funds to hundreds of these kinds of activities, it means tens of millions of dollars less for higher value research in fields such as cyber security, gene editing and quantum computing.
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Pruitt's final months at the EPA were undoubtedly haunted by various ethics scandals, from using taxpayer funds to build a $43,000 phone booth in his office, to allegedly enlisting his staffers in an effort to get his wife a high-paying job.
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WASHINGTON — For years, Betsy DeVos traveled the country — and opened her checkbook — as she worked as a conservative advocate to promote the expansion of voucher programs that allow parents to use taxpayer funds to send their children to private and religious schools.
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Legal scholars said it was unclear how such a step would play out, but they agreed a court test would likely focus on whether an emergency actually exists on the southern border and on the limits of presidential power over taxpayer funds.
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EPA's internal watchdog is investigating the frequency, cost and extent of Pruitt's travel following reports of his many flights to his home state of Oklahoma and that he used taxpayer funds on first-class flights and luxury hotels that exceeded his predecessors.
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Steve Russell (R-Okla.) successfully offered, late at night and with very limited debate, an amendment that would require every federal agency to allow religiously affiliated contractors and grantees (including large institutions like hospitals and universities) to discriminate in hiring with taxpayer funds.
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In between bullying corporations and funneling vast sums of money to left-wing activist groups, the agency has also managed to undertake one of the federal government's most outrageous office decorating projects to the tune of more than $200 million of taxpayer funds.
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The calls come after the Office of Compliance released data that showed more than $17 million in taxpayer funds went toward paying settlements involving Capitol Hill employees, which include a range of workplace violations like allegations of sexual harassment and racial discrimination.
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Blake FarentholdRandolph (Blake) Blake FarentholdMembers spar over sexual harassment training deadline Female Dems see double standard in Klobuchar accusations Lawmaker seeks to ban ex-members from lobbying until sexual harassment settlements repaid MORE (R-Texas) have used taxpayer funds to resolve harassment cases.
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The new plans aim to provide a private-sector solution for the troubled firm with 6.7 million policyholders, as the government is determined to avoid using taxpayer funds after a previous bailout for a bank in 2008 led to much public ire.
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The Air Force has concluded scores of overnight stays at President Donald Trump's seaside resort in Scotland did not violate any rules but did raise questions about the "public perception" of funneling taxpayer funds to a property owned by the commander in chief.
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Rebuilding the Salt Lake City airport has attracted broad support from residents, not only because it is financed almost entirely without taxpayer funds but also because the new terminals will enhance one of the most conveniently situated major airports in the country.
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Legal scholars say it is unclear how such a step would play out, but they agree a court test would likely focus on whether an emergency actually exists on the southern border and on the limits of presidential power over taxpayer funds.
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Legal scholars said it was unclear exactly how such a step would play out, but they agreed that a court test would likely focus on whether an emergency actually exists on the southern border and on the limits of presidential power over taxpayer funds.
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Over the past year Mueller has managed to spend $10 million in taxpayer funds, taken up enormous amounts of time of people being questioned, forced many to run up big legal bills, and had a disruptive effect on the functioning of the White House.
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The group of states, including California and New York, has charged the president and top officials in his administration with taking away taxpayer funds for their communities to fulfill a promise from his 2016 campaign to curb illegal immigration and the flow of drugs.
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The university may fail to recoup tens of millions of dollars in settlement funds it has already paid out — money that officials of the public university had previously insisted "will not be funded by student tuition, taxpayer funds or donations," but rather by insurance.
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Pruitt has faced questions over his decision to rent a Capitol Hill condo from the wife of an energy lobbyist for $50 each day he stayed there, and his use of more millions in taxpayer funds to cover security and first-class travel expenses.
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But national security veterans, legal scholars, and at times Trump's own officials who have testified have suggested his actions open him up to a variety of charges including abuse of power, bribery, extortion, misappropriation of taxpayer funds, and soliciting foreign interference in the 2020 election.
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After reviewing all the evidence available to us, it became clear that a culture of entitlement and disregard for both the law and taxpayer funds have damaged the reputation of our judicial system – and that all justices had a part in violating the public's trust.
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"Setting aside the issue of whether it is appropriate for Secretary Carson to delegate decisions regarding the use of taxpayer funds to his wife, this is now at least the third version of Carson's story about the furniture," said Clark Pettig, the group's communications director.
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At last count, his leadership had spurred some 15 inquiries into a colorful array of purported misbehavior ranging from conflicts of interest to the misuse of taxpayer funds to violating the Hatch Act, which bars federal officials from using their positions to influence elections.
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For weeks, as the president's wall-funding demand to Congress went nowhere, even after a historic 35-day partial government shutdown, the White House explored whether an emergency declaration could be invoked to redirect taxpayer funds committed by Congress for other purposes toward the wall.
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The New York Times received the following statement on Saturday from the office of Representative Patrick Meehan, Republican of Pennsylvania, in response to reporting that Mr. Meehan had used taxpayer funds to settle a case of sexual misconduct with a female staffer in his office.
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India last month shelved a plan to sell a majority stake in the beleaguered airline due to lack of interest from bidders, in the latest setback in its ambitious efforts to rescue the carrier that has been kept afloat for years using taxpayer funds.
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Officials in the EPA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) notified agency leadership about the audit Monday, weeks after an environmental group said Pruitt was in Oklahoma or en route there for nearly half of his first three months in office, often using taxpayer funds.
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As a slew of allegations of self enrichment and abuse of taxpayer funds hit the Trump administration earlier this year, Democrats unveiled a handful of proposals aiming to reduce the influence of lobbyists and donors, stop partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts and improve voter registration.
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The senior Democrat on the committee, Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, sought to add a provision that would create a model for backing the CFTC similar to that used for the Securities and Exchange Commission, which offsets taxpayer funds it receives with fees and fines.
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The House bill is widely seen as the tougher overhaul, with more accountability requirements for lawmakers, including guidelines for the repayment of taxpayer funds used to settle claims against elected officials and a provision for providing representation for the staff member making the claim.
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And while both bills would prevent lawmakers from using taxpayer funds for harassment settlements, only the House bill also would bar the use of taxpayer money to settle discrimination suits — a difference one senior Republican congressional aide said was a sticking point in the negotiations.
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And he's been plagued by corruption allegations: Pruitt rented a D.C. condo from a lobbyist for a discount — $50 per day — and then approved his project, built a soundproof phone booth at EPA using $43,000 of taxpayer funds, gave big salary bumps to aides after the White House told him not to, had department aides run his personal errands — including trying to buy a used mattress from Trump International Hotel, instructed his deputy to schedule a meeting with a Chick-fil-A executive about getting his wife her own franchise, spent $3,000,000 of taxpayer funds on excessive security detail and $1,500 on fountain pens.
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Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union and a key witness in the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, spent over $21 million in taxpayer funds on personal home renovations to his residences in both Washington, DC, and Brussels, government contracting records show.
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"We are issuing our own report today because, after spending more than two years and $28503 million in taxpayer funds in one of the longest and most partisan congressional investigations in history, it is long past time for the select committee to conclude its work," Democrats said.
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"We are issuing our own report today because, after spending more than two years and $7 million in taxpayer funds in one of the longest and most partisan congressional investigations in history, it is long past time for the select committee to conclude its work," Democrats said.
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If the President proceeds with the declaration, it'll likely be challenged in court and by Democrats in Congress, as critics have argued that Trump cannot use the national emergency authority to free up taxpayer funds and build the border wall he has long promised his political supporters.
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But national security veterans, legal scholars, and at times Trump's own officials who have testified have suggested his actions open him up to a variety of potential charges including abuse of power, bribery, extortion, misappropriation of taxpayer funds, and soliciting foreign interference in the upcoming election.
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That is going to happenNot only is pressuring a foreign government to dig up dirt on a political opponent a potential violation of federal campaign finance laws, but withholding military aid to do so — as Mulvaney suggested — could also constitute bribery, extortion, and misappropriation of taxpayer funds.
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" Likewise, the National Education Association argued that, "While there is a long and honorable history of taxpayer funds being used to support faith-based institutions in their provision of secular social services, any such funding must be accompanied, in AJC's view, by adequate church-state safeguards.
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Houses of worship that have been damaged in hurricanes could receive grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to rebuild — even if they are using the taxpayer funds to hire only staff members who share their religious beliefs, rather than making the positions open to all.
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The measure would ban the administration from using taxpayer funds to meet with a foreign leader or hold other multilateral meetings at Trump International Hotel, Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, Trump National Doral or any other property the president or his immediate family has majority ownership in.
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"We are issuing our own report today because, after spending more than two years and $7 million in taxpayer funds in one of the longest and most partisan congressional investigations in history, it is long past time for the select committee to conclude its work," they said.
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Unfortunately, the recent revelations of sexual harassment on Capitol Hill — and the $17 million in taxpayer funds that were used to settle both claims of harassment and various types of bias — suggests that some elected officials believe they needn't play by the same rules as everyone else.
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In the past month, we have seen Congress rocked by scandals involving allegations of sexual harassment, disclosures of previous settlements using taxpayer funds which were kept secret, and the passage of a tax cut bill which may be the most unpopular piece of legislation in decades.
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On Saturday, Ryan removed Meehan from the House Ethics Committee after the New York Times published an article saying Meehan used thousands of dollars of taxpayer funds to settle a sexual misconduct claim from a former female aide who accused him of making unwanted romantic overtures.
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Not only did Pruitt rack up over $163,000 in first-class, charter, and military flights (not counting staff costs) in his first year alone under the dubious excuse that he needed significantly more security than prior EPA administrators, he allegedly eyed leasing his own private jet using taxpayer funds.
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In 2002, angered by the prospect of large public subsidies for a new baseball stadium being planned for the Cardinals, the voters in the city and the far wealthier and more populous county passed referendums that required voter approval to use taxpayer funds for a St. Louis sports stadium.
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The abortion industry, led by Planned Parenthood, goes to great lengths to make abortion seem synonymous with women's health care — a public relations strategy geared at securing an ever-increasing share of taxpayer funds (the corporation received over $550 million taxpayer dollars last year alone) while building political power.
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Why it matters: A report released this morning found that Shulkin and his staff misled ethics officials in order to gain approval for his wife's trip to Europe, making him the latest in a string of Trump administration officials to face criticism for misusing taxpayer funds for travel.
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"I'm troubled that in a state made up of 40% people of color, our leadership continues to openly sanction the use of taxpayer funds to endorse a neo-Confederate agenda," Mississippi Rising Coalition President Lea Campbell said last year in a Facebook post promoting protests of the holiday.
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It also emerged Tuesday that the European Union had approved a 5.4 billion-euro state bailout of Italy's fourth-largest lender, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, taking the total amount of Italian taxpayer funds deployed to rescue banks over the past week to more than 20 billion euros.
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If the President proceeds with the declaration, it'll likely be challenged in court and by Democrats in Congress, as critics have argued that Trump cannot use the national emergency authority to free up taxpayer funds and build the border wall he has long promised to his political supporters.
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"Either the Treasury Department has used extensive taxpayer funds to conduct economic analyses that it refuses to release because those analyses would contradict the Treasury Secretary's claims, or Secretary Mnuchin has grossly misled the public about the extent of the Treasury Department's analysis," Warren wrote in her letter.
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"There are several regulations designed to prevent the misuse of taxpayer funds and to prevent a supervisor from misusing the time of or accepting an improper gift from a subordinate employee, whose salary is paid by American taxpayers," the senators wrote Thursday to EPA Inspector General Arthur Elkins.
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The report found "serious derelictions" by Shulkin and senior staff related to the trip and concluded that Shulkin misused taxpayer funds and inappropriately accepted Wimbledon tickets, and that his then-chief of staff doctored an email to justify the department paying for his wife's airfare to accompany him.
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Chmielewski also told the lawmakers that Pruitt's travel destinations were often dictated by his desire to visit cities or countries, rather than official business, "and that you tell your staff to 'find me something to do'" in those locations to justify the use of taxpayer funds, the letter said.
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Taxpayer funds are being used by Intelligence Community elements to actively seek out and exploit vulnerabilities in the phones, tablets, computers, WiFi routers, and other internet-connected devices that their constituents use to conduct online banking, shop, pay their bills, and monitor their children and pets remotely, among other things.
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The bill would also prevent U.S. taxpayer funds from landing in the hands of international traffickers and restore the credibility of the U.S. State Department's Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) by limiting the length of time a country can stay on the tier 2 watch list without demonstrable progress against trafficking.
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"If he goes forward with what he's been talking about today, the idea of building an enemies list, and then we'd have the prospect of whether taxpayer funds were being used to deal with critics, I would rule absolutely nothing out if he pursued that strategy," the Oregon Democrat said.
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Former federal prosecutors told Insider that in addition to constituting possibly impeachable offenses, Trump pressuring a foreign government to act for his benefit could violate campaign finance regulations or even rise to the level of bribery or misappropriation of taxpayer funds if he used the military aid as a bargaining chip.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided on Wednesday in a major legal battle over taxpayer funds going to religious schools, with Chief Justice John Roberts emerging as the potential pivotal vote in a Montana case that could open the door to more public aid for faith-based institutions.
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How can the truth — that Donald Trump used taxpayer funds to try to force the president of Ukraine to sully the reputation of Joe Biden, a political rival — possibly break through this unique trifecta of a president without shame, backed by a party without spine, reinforced by a network without integrity?
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The full court also said it would immediately take up a case that House Democrats brought against Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin challenging the administration's use of emergency powers and other extraordinary measures to spend more taxpayer funds on Mr. Trump's border wall with Mexico than Congress had been willing to appropriate.
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"The federal agencies that host these platforms have not yet found ways to cope with these abuses, which reduces the effectiveness of the notice-and-comment process; costs taxpayer funds to mitigate; allows identity theft-related crimes to go unaddressed; and leaves the rulemaking process vulnerable to disruptive activity," the report said.
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The Hyde Amendment, originally passed in 1976, has been included in the Appropriations bill for the U.S. Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services annually and has prohibited the use of taxpayer funds for most abortions through Medicaid, thereby reducing the actual number of abortions by as many as 60,000 a year.
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From the death of veterans awaiting access to VA care, theft of taxpayer funds by VA employees, retaliation against whistleblowers by supervisors, wrongful stockpiling of veterans' benefit applications to boost employee performance statistics, and system-gaming in pursuit of undeserved performance bonuses, the VA's organizational behavior only seems to be getting worse.
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When plans to use taxpayer funds for private schooling were first introduced into American education in the early 1990s, they were pitched as a way to give poor and urban children a chance to leave failing public schools for better learning opportunities in what were thought to be more effective private schools.
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"Either the Treasury Department has used extensive taxpayer funds to conduct economic analyses that it refuses to release because those analyses would contradict the Treasury secretary's claims, or Secretary Mnuchin has grossly misled the public about the extent of the Treasury Department's analysis," Ms. Warren wrote in a letter to the agency's watchdog.
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But sticking thumbs in the eyes of allies while praising dictators, saying there were "very fine people on both sides" of a march where white supremacists faced off against protesters, spending taxpayer funds at his hotels and separating families at the border all appear to have had little effect on his overall approval rating.
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The details: In a letter sent Wednesday, the Republican governor urged Farenthold to pay back the $84,000 in taxpayer funds used to settle the claim "to the counties in [his] district to cover the costs of the ... special election," adding that "the counties and taxpayers ... should not again pay the price for your actions."
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Legal experts also told Insider that Trump and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who spearheaded the shadow campaign, could have opened themselves up to allegations of bribery, extortion, and misappropriation of taxpayer funds by holding up a nearly $400 million military-aid package to Ukraine while pushing for political investigations that would personally benefit Trump.
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Earl BlumenauerEarl BlumenauerAirports already have plenty of infrastructure funding Climate protesters glue themselves to Capitol doors, confront lawmakers Here are the 95 Democrats who voted to support impeachment MORE (D-Ore.) introduced legislation that would prevent the use of taxpayer funds to pay for any expenses at places owned by President Trump and his family.
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Ms. DeVos fought and is now stalling defrauded students' right to recourse under the Borrower Defense rule, and she eliminated a rule requiring career colleges to prove their graduates can get a job, even after being officially warned by the department's Office of Inspector General that the rule was necessary to protect taxpayer funds.
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One of the most alarming bills comes out of Georgia, where state lawmakers have cobbled together a dangerous piece of legislation that would prohibit the government from punishing anyone or anything — individuals; businesses; and nonprofit groups, including those that receive taxpayer funds — for discrimination, so long as they claim it was based on their religious views of marriage.
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Tom MarinoThomas (Tom) Anthony MarinoThe Hill's Morning Report - Pelosi remains firm despite new impeachment push Republican wins special House election in Pennsylvania Trump calls man dressed as border wall on stage at rally MORE (R-Pa.) unveiled a bill to ban taxpayer funds from being used to pay for settlements resulting from harassment by a lawmaker.
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Blake FarentholdRandolph (Blake) Blake FarentholdMembers spar over sexual harassment training deadline Female Dems see double standard in Klobuchar accusations Lawmaker seeks to ban ex-members from lobbying until sexual harassment settlements repaid MORE (R-Texas) announced last month that he would resign from Congress immediately amid backlash over using $84,000 in taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment claim.
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Trump's former Veterans Affairs Secretary, David ShulkinDavid Jonathon ShulkinPress: Acosta, latest to walk the plank Senior Trump administration official to leave post next week Trump sent policy pitch from Mar-a-Lago member to VA secretary: report MORE, was ousted late last month following an inspector general report that found he misused taxpayer funds during a trip to Europe.
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"The senior DEA official wasted and misused hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds and engaged in misconduct when he took actions to get his son and former colleagues contractor positions and that his actions constituted misconduct in violation of federal ethics regulations, the DEA Standards of Conduct, and the Federal Acquisition Regulation," he reported this week.
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Nathan Deal, a Republican, wisely rejected the latest effort, announcing that he would veto House Bill 757, which would allow businesses and nonprofit groups, including those that receive taxpayer funds, to discriminate not only against same-sex couples, but also against interracial, interfaith and even unmarried couples if they claimed their actions were based on their religious views.
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"The president is on both sides of the negotiation — he oversees the government entity providing taxpayer funds and he pockets some of that money himself," they wrote in a July 20093 letter to the Donald J. Trump Trust, which holds the president's business interests, and Ben Carson, secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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"I understand that after more than two years and $7 million spent by the Benghazi Committee out of taxpayer funds, it had to today report it found nothing — nothing — to contradict the conclusions of the independent accountability board or the conclusion of the prior, multiple congressional investigations carried out on a bipartisan basis in the Congress," Clinton added.
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Washington (CNN)In the weeks since a sharply critical inspector general report faulted Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin with misusing taxpayer funds and amid reports of an agency rife with tension and infighting, Shulkin has maintained that he is fully in control, insisting that he has "no tolerance" for those who try to distract from the department's mission.
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Blake FarentholdRandolph (Blake) Blake FarentholdMembers spar over sexual harassment training deadline Female Dems see double standard in Klobuchar accusations Lawmaker seeks to ban ex-members from lobbying until sexual harassment settlements repaid MORE (R-Texas) used taxpayer funds to reach an $84,85033 settlement in 2015 with his former communications director, who had accused him of sexual harassment.
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He got a record number of conservative judges confirmed during his first year; allowed states to defund Planned Parenthood; defunded the pro-abortion United Nations Population Fund; restored and expanded the Mexico City policy banning taxpayer funds for groups that perform abortions overseas; and exempted organizations with moral objections against providing abortifacient drugs from the Obamacare Health and Human Services mandate.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE on Tuesday signed legislation that bars the use of taxpayer funds for portraits of current and former federal employees.
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Bernie SandersBernie SandersHarry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' The exhaustion of Democrats' anti-Trump delusions Warren offers plan to repeal 1994 crime law authored by Biden MORE (I-Vt.) recently declared that his administration "will ban for-profit charter schools" and has called for a moratorium on taxpayer funds for charter expansion.
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Rep. Blake FarentholdRandolph (Blake) Blake FarentholdMembers spar over sexual harassment training deadline Female Dems see double standard in Klobuchar accusations Lawmaker seeks to ban ex-members from lobbying until sexual harassment settlements repaid MORE (R-Texas) announced Friday that he is resigning from Congress immediately after facing a backlash over using $84,000 in taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment claim.
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In a letter to the head of the Office of Compliance, the office that handles harassment complaints and administers payments, Kaine asked for the number of harassment claims filed in the last decade; the number of claims against members of the Senate and their staffs that ended in "some form of resolution"; and the amount of each settlement paid with taxpayer funds.
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The following are some possible scenarios for how the impasse might play out, with Trump's request for $5.7 billion in taxpayer funds for his wall firmly opposed by congressional Democrats: Trump has threatened to declare a national emergency, saying that illegal immigration jeopardizes U.S. security and empowers him to redirect existing federal funds to build his wall, perhaps by tapping Defense Department accounts.
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The Secretary of the Treasury makes monthly advance payments with U.S. taxpayer funds to insurance companies or to exchanges to pay for health insurance plans that subsidize abortion on demand; a tax policy that is out of step with the more than six in ten Americans who oppose the use of tax dollars to fund abortions in the United States.
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The following are some possible scenarios for how the impasse might play out, with Trump's request for $5.7 billion in taxpayer funds for his wall firmly opposed by congressional Democrats: As ordinary Americans begin to feel the impact of the closure of about a quarter of the government, both sides could feel the heat from voters and move to do a deal, perhaps focused on these factors.
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Chaotic Trump transition leaks: Debates must tackle how Democrats will govern differently MORE who spent over $1 million of taxpayer funds on charter flights, a Washington Post investigation into Shulkin's travel revealed that, while veterans continued to struggle with the improved access to care promised by the Trump administration, he attended Wimbledon, toured Westminster Abbey, and took a cruise along the Thames at taxpayer expense.
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Tom MarinoThomas (Tom) Anthony MarinoThe Hill's Morning Report - Pelosi remains firm despite new impeachment push Republican wins special House election in Pennsylvania Trump calls man dressed as border wall on stage at rally MORE (R-Pa.) introduced a bill this week that would go further by prohibiting taxpayer funds from being used for settlements in cases where a lawmaker is accused of sexual harassment.
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Some Democrats some have called for Pruitt to resign David ShulkinDavid Jonathon ShulkinPress: Acosta, latest to walk the plank Senior Trump administration official to leave post next week Trump sent policy pitch from Mar-a-Lago member to VA secretary: report MORE, Trump's former Veterans Affairs secretary, was ousted following an inspector general report that found he misused taxpayer funds during a trip to Europe.
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Decades after legendary Raiders owner Al Davis moved the team from Oakland to Los Angeles and back, his son Mark has been flirting with a succession of increasingly serious suitors in his search for a new stadium (and, more to the point, the dollars to build it—Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has so far refused to pony up taxpayer funds for the billion-dollar project).
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He celebrated recent rulings that establish the right of religious groups to participate in "public programs," but failed to note that the concerns those rulings raise have to do with the use of taxpayer funds by religious groups whose beliefs are not universally shared — and whose discriminatory practices are at odds with laws that apply to the rest of the nonprofit (and for-profit) world.
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" Without detailing those concerns, Mr. Pence, after a meeting with Mr. Zelensky in Warsaw on the sidelines of a commemoration of the outbreak of World War II, told reporters that to invest more taxpayer funds in Ukraine, "the president wants to be assured that those resources are truly making their way to the kind of investments that will contribute to security and stability in Ukraine.
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Blake FarentholdRandolph (Blake) Blake FarentholdMembers spar over sexual harassment training deadline Female Dems see double standard in Klobuchar accusations Lawmaker seeks to ban ex-members from lobbying until sexual harassment settlements repaid MORE (R-Texas), who was facing an ethics probe after revelations he used taxpayer funds to settle a sexual harassment claim involving a former aide, also resigned from Congress earlier this month.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall In shift, top CEOs say shareholder value not top goal MORE (D-Mass.) accused Mnuchin in a letter to Thorson of using taxpayer funds to conduct an analysis that the government was now refusing to let see the light of day.
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Ron DeSantisRonald Dion DeSantisFlorida governor orders criminal investigation into handling of Jeffrey Epstein case Groups ask court to block ex-felon voting law in Florida GOP Florida governor enlists new officer to prepare state for rising sea level MORE (R-Fla.) has introduced a bipartisan bill that would ban the use of taxpayer funds for settlements where lawmakers or staff are accused of sexual harassment.
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As questions mount about his use of taxpayer funds and relationships with lobbyists, Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE's future remains uncertain.
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It would catalog the years of racial profiling, the tormenting of immigrants and Latinos, the physical mistreatment and humiliation of inmates and defendants, the beatings and neglect and deaths behind bars, the abuses of office — withholding records, harassing and persecuting elected officials and journalists, failing to investigate hundreds of unsolved sex crimes, squandering taxpayer funds on crime sweeps and "posses" and looney-tune vendettas, like the mission to expose President Obama's supposedly forged birth certificate.
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthyKevin Owen McCarthyI'm not a Nazi, I'm just a dude: What it's like to be the other Steve King Trump finds consistent foil in 'Squad' Tlaib says she won't visit Israel after being treated like 'a criminal' MORE (R-Calif.) — who will soon take over as House minority leader — helped secure more than $12 million in taxpayer funds for the new 26,000 square-foot facility, NPR reported Tuesday.
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Former Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE resigned last month after new scandals about his misuse of taxpayer funds trickled out over the course of a few months.
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Conyers, a former dean of the House and co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, resigned from Congress in 2017 after allegations that he had sexually harassed female staffers and settled one case with taxpayer funds (The Hill) … House and Senate negotiators are struggling to reach a compromise on several issues in the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act related to the president's border wall, dragging the bill into a quagmire that has bedeviled multiple legislative efforts in recent years (The Hill).
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Chaotic Trump transition leaks: Debates must tackle how Democrats will govern differently MORE and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE both resigned amid complaints that included allegations of improper use of taxpayer funds.
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After looking at the more than 800-page document produced by the Select Committee on Benghazi -- the product of two years of investigations, almost $7 million in taxpayer funds, and countless hours spent by government officials who should have been dedicating their efforts to solving the many challenges faced by the country -- what one finds is essentially the same conclusion that eight other investigations reached: Something went terribly wrong that night, but there was no conspiracy, no criminal intent or shameful action on the part of Clinton or anyone else.
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The recent attention on the extravagant spending of taxpayer funds and other reported ethical lapses by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott PruittEdward (Scott) Scott PruittEnvironmentalists renew bid to overturn EPA policy barring scientists from advisory panels Six states sue EPA over pesticide tied to brain damage Overnight Energy: Trump EPA looks to change air pollution permit process | GOP senators propose easing Obama water rule | Green group sues EPA over lead dust rules MORE has obscured a longer-term problem: the disturbing impact of Pruitt and the Trump White House on the institutional functioning and future viability of EPA.
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"This transaction—another example of what appears to be open corruption in this administration—deepens my concerns about the ongoing ethics issues related to the President's continued financial relationship with the Trump Organization and the abuse of taxpayer funds to enrich the President and his family through their business interests," Warren wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Mike PompeoMichael (Mike) Richard PompeoDiplomat who raised Ukraine concerns to testify in Trump impeachment probe Overnight Defense: Trump weighs leaving some troops in Syria to 'secure the oil' | US has pulled 2,000 troops from Afghanistan | Pelosi leads delegation to Afghanistan, Jordan Mulvaney faces uncertain future after public gaffes MORE.
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Jamie RaskinJamin (Jamie) Ben RaskinDemocrats bicker over strategy on impeachment Overnight Defense: Trump says he has 'many options' on Iran | Hostage negotiator chosen for national security adviser | Senate Dems block funding bill | Documents show Pentagon spent at least 220006K at Trump's Scotland resort Top Oversight Democrat demands immigration brass testify MORE (D-Md.), an Oversight subcommittee chairman, implored Defense Secretary Mark EsperMark EsperOvernight Defense: Trump says he has 'many options' on Iran | Hostage negotiator chosen for national security adviser | Senate Dems block funding bill | Documents show Pentagon spent at least 2202K at Trump's Scotland resort Documents show Pentagon spent at least 2628,28500 at Trump's Turnberry resort in Scotland Senate panel advances Trump's nominees to lead Air Force, Army MORE for more information on Pentagon spending at Turnberry golf course, saying taxpayer funds paid for the equivalent of more than 6900 rooms.
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Jamie RaskinJamin (Jamie) Ben RaskinDemocrats bicker over strategy on impeachment Overnight Defense: Trump says he has 'many options' on Iran | Hostage negotiator chosen for national security adviser | Senate Dems block funding bill | Documents show Pentagon spent at least 2628K at Trump's Scotland resort Top Oversight Democrat demands immigration brass testify MORE (D-Md.), an Oversight subcommittee chairman, implored Defense Secretary Mark EsperMark EsperOvernight Defense: Trump says he has 'many options' on Iran | Hostage negotiator chosen for national security adviser | Senate Dems block funding bill | Documents show Pentagon spent at least 28500K at Trump's Scotland resort Documents show Pentagon spent at least 6900,2628 at Trump's Turnberry resort in Scotland Senate panel advances Trump's nominees to lead Air Force, Army MORE for more information on Pentagon spending at Turnberry golf course, saying taxpayer funds paid for the equivalent of more than 28503 rooms.
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