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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenior White House aides are furious about a series of negative stories about frivolous spending
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Senior White House aides are furious about a series of negative stories about frivolous spending (Original Post)
pbmus
Feb 2018
OP
Nothing to see here, if an Obama or Hillary appointee did this the world would END
Eliot Rosewater
Feb 2018
#2
Yet not many cared about the wedding planner appointment to HUD, nor Carson's lack of qualifications
Freethinker65
Feb 2018
#5
onecent
(6,096 posts)1. Oh bring them alll on!!!!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)2. Nothing to see here, if an Obama or Hillary appointee did this the world would END
but nothing to see here
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)3. Furious about the spending?
Or, as I suspect, furious about the stories?
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)4. Frivolous spending...hmmm, spending...frivolously. Nope, I got nuthin
Freethinker65
(10,022 posts)5. Yet not many cared about the wedding planner appointment to HUD, nor Carson's lack of qualifications
This administration expected this. They want all government social safety programs to be mismanaged and seen as failures. It is then easier to deny the programs and departments funding and reappropriate the $$$$ to donors, friends, and family through privatization.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)6. They are furious?
We're the ones paying for it, open your checkbooks then you can be as furious as you wish to be.
The dinning set was a bit gaudy. Same taste as Trump.