Former Trump FEMA chief repaid taxpayers only 2% of $151,000 spent on personal travel
, obtained by the watchdog group American Oversight through a public records request, shows that the former administrator paid back only $2,716 — less than 2 percent of the total cost billed to taxpayers.
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. "Between Puerto Rico, Texas, and the California wildfires, you don't have to look very far to find better ways FEMA could have spent $150,000,” Austin Evers, executive director of American Oversight, said in a statement to POLITICO. “As we saw with Scott Pruitt and Tom Price before, too many Trump appointees seem to view public service as a source of luxury perks, and once again the taxpayers have been left holding the bag.
On several occasions, drivers made the seven-hour trip directly to Hickory from Washington, the report said. Typically they were given overtime pay “despite spending the weekend in a hotel room.” A spokesperson for the DHS inspector general said in a statement that the office does not comment on corrective actions from investigations. But, the spokesperson said, “We stand behind the findings.”
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