Wondering how those federal funds for Hurricane Katrina have been spent so far? So are some very vocal Democrats.
Congress approved a total of $62.3 billion as a down payment for reconstruction and other needs, but the accounting of the expenditures to date looks like something you’d expect from a Grade 10 bookkeeping student who missed most of his classes.
Check it out…
“Instead of telling us who is doing what and how, we got a few spreadsheets.”
The information provided by the administration lists broad allocations of funds for a range of government programs, such as $2.3 billion for “housing assistance,” $3.1 billion for “missions” under a category called “operations,” and $3.5 billion for “missions” under a category called “administration of field operations.”
Ummm…hmmm…Homeland Security poobahs were not available for comment.
Isn’t Rove supposed to be in charge of some of this hurricane relief stuff? Oops. He’s going to North Dakota to do some political fundraising. Senator Frank Lautenberg is not happy and he let Bush know it.
And, to add to the fun, “Obey and Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, the Senate Appropriations Committee senior Democrat, have asked for details on credit card purchases by government officials.”
Those should be interesting, to say the least.
Most.inept.administration.ever.
I agree with the opinion of EJ Dionne. The Bush era is over.
