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To: JohnM who wrote (366930)3/21/2018 6:33:52 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541944
 
GOP Lawmaker Blames ‘Deep State’ for Carson’s Spending
Political Wire
by Taegan Goddard

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) appeared to blame the nefarious “Deep State” for ordering a costly dining set for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, the Daily Beast reports.

Said Tenney: “Somebody in the Deep State, it was not one of his people apparently, ordered a table, like a conference room table or whatever it was for a room. And that’s what the cost was. Ben Carson tried to—he said ‘you know how hard it is to turn it back because of the way that the procurement happens?'”