👓 US housing department to spend $165,000 on own furniture as it faces $6.8bn budget cut | The Guardian

Read US housing department to spend $165,000 on own furniture as it faces $6.8bn budget cut by Jon Swaine (the Guardian)

Spending is in addition to $31,000 dining set for Ben Carson’s office, even asproposed budget cuts would affect poor and homeless Americans

How are there not better checks on this kind of waste before they even happen?