Republican committee spending hefty taxpayer cash to hold 'public hearings' in GOP donors' barn
The House Ways and Means Committee is heading to Yukon, Oklahoma, to hold a "public" hearing in the Clydesdale barn at Bob Funk's Express Limousine Ranch. Funk's big barn at the top of the hill overlooking the hometown of Garth Brooks is for his fleet of Clydesdales, with accommodations better than some family homes.
The pricey horses are dressed in coats and matching leg warmers and enjoy life in an Amish-raised barn fully heated and cooled for their pleasure. This is the "event space" that Republicans are gathering to continue their attack against President Joe Biden, the New York Times reported Sunday.
After holding an event in Petersberg, West Virginia, last month, Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK) will bring the committee to his home state on the taxpayers' dime.
"The Judiciary Committee, for example, which has held one field hearing at the U.S. border with Mexico to criticize the Biden administration’s immigration policies and is planning more, requested a travel budget of $262,000 for this year," wrote the Times. "That is more than 30 times what the panel spent on travel last year. (In 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic significantly curtailed travel, the Judiciary Committee spent about $85,000 on travel costs, according to a public disclosure form, one-third of what Republicans are planning this year.)"
So, taxpayers are giving Congress money to do their jobs, Congress then is paying one of their donors to use his event space, and then the donor is giving hefty cash to the Republican Party.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-committee-spending-hefty-taxpayer-cash-to-hold-public-hearings-in-gop-donors-barn/ar-AA18g1FV
“The Democrats’ out-of-control spending is running up our debt and hurting our economy," Hern ranted in a press release last month.
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