The New York Times reported yesterday that two government inspector generals looked at Clinton’s claim and found an investigation is warranted.
There was no permanent inspector general at the State Department during Clinton’s four-year tenure.
The Washington Examiner reported today on a “scathing” report from the Inspector General that details the excessive spending for renovations to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Washington headquarters. The costs of the renovations, originally priced at $55 million, have nearly quadrupled to $215 million.
Who could have possibly known the budget would grow to almost 4 times its original size? House Republicans, it turns out. That didn’t stop House Dems from rejecting a bill that would have reformed the CFPB and subjected its budget to the regular appropriations process.
Several vulnerable House Democrats had no interest in applying that kind of accountability and scrutiny to the agency, and now taxpayers are left footing the bill for this outrageous wasteful spending.
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The Associated Press reported this morning that Michelle Nunn finally released her tax returns. While the Republican candidates for Senate in Georgia released 5 and 10 years of their full returns, Nunn only felt it necessary to release the first two pages of each year’s returns from 2009 to 2013. Because, transparency!
She also timed the release to coincide with the 4th of July holiday in the hopes that no one would notice. Oops!
Sounds like someone with something to hide…
The returns reveal that last year, Nunn and her husband only paid an effective tax rate of 13.6 percent. This is the same Nunn whose campaign website laments the fact that tax loopholes are allowing folks a way around paying their fair share. Nunn’s site states:
I believe Georgia families are paying too much in taxes. Our tax code is too complicated and there are too many loopholes carved out for special interests that allow those who can afford high-priced accountants to get away without paying their fair share.
In a financial disclosure filed with the Senate, Nunn and her husband listed assets valued between $1.2 million and $3 million. Apparently Nunn was talking about herself when she mentioned “those who can afford high-priced accountants to get away without paying their fair share.”
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