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  • Report: Rashida Tlaib Paid Herself $17,500 in Campaign Funds Post-Election

    03/03/2019 2:22:19 AM PST · by grundle · 55 replies
    Breitbart ^ | March 2, 2019 | Katherine Rodriguez
    Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) may be in hot water with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) after she paid herself $17,500 in campaign funds following the 2018 midterm elections, according to a report. Recent FEC filings show that the freshman Democrat lawmaker may have run afoul of campaign finance rules by making payments to herself after she ended her candidacy on Election Day. According to FEC rules, a general election candidate can take a salary from his or campaign funds until the date of the election. “If the candidate loses the primary, withdraws from the race, or otherwise ceases to be...
  • Estimated $72 Million in Medicaid Payments Made to Ineligible Beneficiaries

    08/26/2017 9:34:00 AM PDT · by ForYourChildren · 15 replies
    Washington Free Bacon ^ | 08/21/2017 | Ali Meyer
    An estimated $72 million in Medicaid payments were made to potentially ineligible beneficiaries in Kentucky, according to an audit from the agency's inspector general. The audit found the state agency in Kentucky did not always determine eligibility status for Medicaid benefits in line with federal and state requirements and that the agency did not keep paperwork noting it verified citizenship status. In order to receive Medicaid benefits, the state must verify citizenship or nationality status and have documentary evidence. The state can conduct this verification process through the Social Security Administration. The audit found the state determined eligibility status for...
  • America, We Pay Way Too Much For the United Nations

    06/20/2015 6:52:41 PM PDT · by lbryce · 35 replies
    Fox News ^ | June 16, 2015 | Brett Schaefer
    Each year the United States gives approximately $8 billion in mandatory payments and voluntary contributions to the United Nations and its affiliated organizations. The biggest portion of this money – about $3 billion this year – goes to the U.N.’s regular and peacekeeping budgets. If that seems like a lot, it is—far more than anyone else pays And it’s also, in some cases, bad value for money. The U.N. system for calculating member nations’ “fair share” payment toward its regular and peacekeeping budgets has increasingly shifted the burden away from the vast majority of the 193 members and onto a...