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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP House leader's spending is up 33,000% at tRump properties since the election
McCarthy defended GOP spending at Trump properties on Tuesday.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has ramped up his spending at Donald Trump's properties by several thousand percentage points in the last few years.
Reports of the accelerated spending came after McCarthy downplayed concerns about federal dollars being spent at Trump's property in Ireland.
In the 10 years that he served in Congress before Trump won the 2016 election, McCarthy spent only $743.93 at Trump's businesses, according to FEC filings examined by 1100 Pennsylvania.
But after Trump won things significantly changed.
"Since Trump was elected president, however, McCarthys campaign, leadership PAC, and joint fundraising committees have spent a combined $245,884.44 at Trump propertiesan increase of almost 33,000 percent," the site noted. - Shareblue
The GOP grift gets broader and deeper by the day.
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GOP House leader's spending is up 33,000% at tRump properties since the election (Original Post)
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Sep 2019
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SWBTATTReg
(22,124 posts)1. Aiding and abetting the crime of grifting by rump...nice! nt
magicarpet
(14,150 posts)2. One hand washes the other,...
One man's billfold fattens the other man's wallet.
Corruption is welcomed in the front door,...
Ethics tossed from the fourth floor back window to the concrete patio below.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)3. Paying tribute to the boss.
barbtries
(28,794 posts)4. tribute.
that's what they called it in Goodfellas
malaise
(268,997 posts)5. I'm betting that from the day McCarthy said that he thought Putin pays the Con,
the Con let him know that he has all the dirt needed to destroy him. The deference since that exposure is stunning.