...Except he is the President of the United States.
Knowing how the Federal Gov’t (doesn’t) work, $17 million for the Mueller’s operation is no surprise. The real issue is how much was spent to produce so little/nothing and while “investigating” in all the wrong places. Besides, Mueller wouldn’t make it in private practice with this cost model.
The Hill’s article is a deflection tactic.
Yesterday their excuse is that those people were going to be paid whether or not they were investigating Trump.
They didn’t buy that argument when it’s said that the military is paid whether or not there is a war.