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The Trump admin proposed cutting unemployment benefits to $200 per week saying, "We're not going to use taxpayer money to pay people more to stay home."

But it’s never hesitated to spend on the Trump family. Here’s a quick review of some things it’s spent taxpayer money on:
$76,859.36: Secret Service protection for Donald Trump Jr. to hunt an endangered Mongolian sheep
citizensforethics.org/don-jr-mongoli…
$550,000+: Golf cart rentals, often at Trump properties
qz.com/1753518/trump-…
$599,454: Limos for Mike Pence’s cross-country detour to stay at Trump’s Doonbeg resort during his trip to Ireland
citizensforethics.org/mike-pence-doo…
$970,000 (at least): Secret Service payments to Trump’s business for stays at Trump properties
washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
$60 million: Secret Service budget increase in part to fund the 12x spike in protected trips for the Trump family, many of which involve stays at Trump properties
citizensforethics.org/trump-family-t…
$1.75 billion: In the same proposal that cuts unemployment benefits, the WH insisted on money for FBI HQ construction in downtown DC, which will limit potential competition for Trump’s DC hotel.
citizensforethics.org/was-the-fbi-he…
Sometimes, the cost of Trump’s corruption is tens of thousands of dollars. Sometimes, it’s billions.

But no matter how much the total bill comes out to, it’s a disgrace.
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THIS WEEK IN CORRUPTION: We saw the Ohio Majority Leader arrested for his role in a $60 million dollar bribery scheme where a $1 billion public bailout was extended in exchange for cash.

It says a lot that this news was immediately overshadowed...
cnn.com/2020/07/21/pol…
News broke that Trump asked the US ambassador to the UK to get the British Open hosted at his Turnberry resort. The ambassador tried and failed.

He's now reportedly being investigated for promotion of Trump’s resort...and for racist comments.
nytimes.com/2020/07/21/wor…
Even though that profiteering scheme didn’t work out, Trump businesses are still raking it in.

New campaign finance filings showed political spending at Trump properties has hit $22 million since Trump launched his 2016 campaign.
cnn.com/2020/07/21/pol…
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President Trump has been using the Secret Service as an excuse to funnel taxpayer money to the properties he owns and profits from. And he keeps lying about it.
He tried to host the G-7 at his Doral resort, saying the Secret Service wanted him to.

We got records from the Secret Service that showed he was lying, and they actually had serious concerns:
citizensforethics.org/secret-service…
Then Trump said the Secret Service made him use an extra million taxpayer dollars to stay at his Las Vegas hotel during a four-night trip to the West Cost.

We asked for receipts...they couldn’t find any:
citizensforethics.org/trump-secret-s…
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Mike Pompeo racked up quite the slate of scandals this week. It’s getting hard to keep track, so we made a list.

The bottom line is: we need an impartial IG at the State Dept. to investigate all of this, but Trump just fired him. (We’re investigating)
citizensforethics.org/foia/trump-fir…
After Trump fired the State Department IG on Friday night, Pompeo said he asked Trump to fire him for “undermining” the department. Actually, the IG was finishing legitimate investigations into Pompeo’s wrongdoing.

Now we know there was a *lot* to investigate...
The first scandal to break was that Pompeo allegedly made a staffer run personal errands, including walking his dog and picking up his dry cleaning.

Maybe this seems like small potatoes, but it’s a slippery slope:
nytimes.com/2020/05/19/us/…
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