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POTUS dumb 4th of July display has now bankrupted Wash. D.C.'s security fund, which it uses to keep the city safe from actual threats professor zovek Jul 10, 11:07

You'd think the capital city and seat of the US federal government would budget enough for official events. Fiscal mismanagement evidently {nm} Nobody Jul 10, 12:09

Trump inauguration committee also still hasn't paid them $7m that they've owed for over 2 years now (seems to be a recurring theme) professor zovek Jul 10, 13:10

Trump has a long history of not paying his invoices... Did not change as prez... {nm} Lukasck Jul 10, 13:17

Trump doesn’t “owe” anything. Funds for that purpose are appropriated by Congress. Trump is under no obligation to reimburse the city for Nobody Jul 10, 13:29

How is it fiscal mismanagement if Trump is the one who goes over budget? {nm} Antibody Jul 10, 13:38

Year over year, Congress assumes in its appropriations that unspent money will roll over to the next year. But they have spent all their Nobody Jul 10, 13:44

BTW, Trump didn’t go over budget, the city did. And they used questionable accounting such as attributing $3 million for street paving to Nobody Jul 10, 13:49

Obama's inaugural security costs also overran, and he made sure DC was reimbursed in full professor zovek Jul 10, 13:57

Exactly as I stated. Trump doesn’t “owe” anything. The dems control the House and appropriate money d {nm} Nobody Jul 10, 14:06

Congress controls DC's budget. The city "itself" has no say at all. {nm} DTravel Jul 10, 15:23

Congressional control of the budget didn't stop POTUS from stealing another $2.4m from Dept. of Interior that was appropriated for parks professor zovek Jul 11, 08:38

Are you suggesting that the city of DC do the same? DTravel Jul 11, 13:51