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Wasn't it his wife who picked it out? 
Ben Carson Blames His Wife For $31,000 Dining Set Purchase For HUD Office
After reports surfaced earlier this month that Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson spent $31,000 of taxpayer funds on a dining set for his government office, the former Republican presidential candidate said he was “as surprised as anyone to find out” about the lavish purchase.
That’s because Carson’s wife was responsible for the decision, the secretary said at a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
After staffers gave Carson a few options for tables, the secretary said he “left it with [his] wife” and asked her to “help choose something.”
“The next thing that I, quite frankly, heard about it was that this $31,000 table had been bought,” he told a House Appropriations subcommittee. “I said, ‘What the heck is that all about?’ I investigated, I immediately had it canceled. Not that we don’t need the furniture, but I thought that that was excessive.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben-carson-wife-31k-dining-set_us_5ab153b0e4b008c9e5f20794
After reports surfaced earlier this month that Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson spent $31,000 of taxpayer funds on a dining set for his government office, the former Republican presidential candidate said he was “as surprised as anyone to find out” about the lavish purchase.
That’s because Carson’s wife was responsible for the decision, the secretary said at a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
After staffers gave Carson a few options for tables, the secretary said he “left it with [his] wife” and asked her to “help choose something.”
“The next thing that I, quite frankly, heard about it was that this $31,000 table had been bought,” he told a House Appropriations subcommittee. “I said, ‘What the heck is that all about?’ I investigated, I immediately had it canceled. Not that we don’t need the furniture, but I thought that that was excessive.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben-carson-wife-31k-dining-set_us_5ab153b0e4b008c9e5f20794
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