Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) isn’t letting up on the fact that the Justice Department’s Inspector General calculated that the department spent $16 per muffin at a conference two years ago, calling on someone to be fired over the 2009 baked good kerfuffle.Thanks to the blitz of bad PR, both the Justice Department and the Office of Management and Budget sent out memos and statements clarifying that cutting down on conference expenses was a priority and clarifying that they’d already cracked down on overspending.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=106808