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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP reps who have spent the most at Trump properties.Let's see what their spending bought them..
Since President Trump won last years election, his company the Trump Organization has experienced an increase in one particular line of business: hosting fundraisers and receptions for Republican lawmakers.These events have mostly happened at Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington, which opened last year.
Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Tex.) - Arringtons campaign spent more than $16,000 on the reception,No other GOP lawmaker has reported holding an event this expensive at Trumps D.C. hotel.
Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) - $15,221 spent at Trump-branded properties,Trump undercut MacArthurs key legislative achievement a House bill to repeal President Barack Obamas health-care law by publicly calling it mean. MacArthurs staff did not respond to requests for comment.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) - $12,545 spent at Trump-branded properties
Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) - $9,277 spent at Trump-branded properties ,A few weeks later, Trump lent his support to an idea that Shuster had been pushing for years privatizing the U.S. air traffic control system. In an East Room ceremony, Trump signed a memo and a letter to Congress endorsing the idea, as Shuster looked on. The plan later stalled in Congress.Shuster did not respond to a request for comment.
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Tex.) - $7,585 spent at Trump-branded properties - Around the same time, Trump was considering McCaul as a candidate for homeland security secretary.The homeland security job went instead to John Kelly, who later became White House chief of staff. McCaul remains in the House.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/politics/gop-money-trump-properties/?utm_term=.d5b96ca7eac9
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,660 posts)spend much more than that. I guess I was comparing them to foreign governments' and businesses' expenditures at his properties.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)The president's self-dealing at his properties is a black mark on America.
The founding fathers are rolling in their graves.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Just mind boggling. The sort that would pick his nose and eat his boogers in public and then seriously look at all the aghast witnesses and say "what?"
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)I worked for a very large oil company, there was an executive who was very high up, he couldn't keep his finger out of his nose.
The phrase " nose buffet " and "digging for gold he is" just popped into my head reading your post, his nickname among the peons like myself was "Booger".
I can't stop laughing after reading your post and that memory came slamming back.
Sorry but I can't help it, oh man.....