Housing department to spend $165,000 on furniture as it faces $6.8bn budget cut

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Jon Swaine in New York
Tue 27 Feb 2018 22.27 EST

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has agreed to spend $165,000 on "lounge furniture" .. in addition to a $31,000 dining set .. for .. Carson’s office.

... Trump’s administration has proposed a cut of $6.8bn to Hud’s annual budget, or roughly 14% of its total spending, which would lead to reductions in programs aimed at poor and homeless Americans.

Department officials signed a contract last September with an Indiana-based seller for the furniture ...

Raffi Williams, a spokesman for HUD, said .. further records on the lounge furniture contract were not immediately available ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/27/ben-carson-spokesman-falsely-denied-expensive-table-bought

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1. Oversight Panel Asks HUD For Documents

February 28, 2018 1:38 PM ET
BRAKKTON BOOKER

The chairman of the House Oversight Committee and Government Reform Committee sent a letter to Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson Wednesday requesting "all documents and communications" related to the redecorating of his office and HUD's handling of a whistleblower.

In a four-and-a-half page letter, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., said he wants the documents in order for the committee to "determine whether HUD adhered to the applicable spending limitations" that apply to office makeovers. Gowdy is also requesting documentation involving the HUD employee who claims she was the subject of retaliation after refusing to exceed spending caps set for office redecorating ...

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/28/589493664/ben-carson-and-hud-face-allegations-of-lavish-spending-including-31-000-furnitur

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2. ben carson and gang need to be held

accountable for sacking the US Treasury for their own neverending GREED.

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