Foreign Tour For Pompeo's Wife Reportedly Deemed 'Necessary For National Security'
A pricey overseas trip by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s wife was partially funded by taxpayers because it was “necessary for national security,” insisted some State Department officials in a memo obtained by Politico.
Others disagreed that public money should be spent so that Susan Pompeo could accompany her husband on his tour of the Middle East early last year during the government shutdown, when funds were particularly tight and government workers were unpaid.
Susan Pompeo had been invited to events in Cairo and Abu Dhabi as part of the tour.
“To decline the invitation now could be seen as lack of courtesy, but there is no significant foreign policy interest here save the issue of courtesy,” argued the State Department’s Near Eastern Affairs bureau, which oversees the Middle East, according to the same memo dated the day the trip began.
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