Rep. Jeff Miller, chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee, threatened to subpoena the Department of Veterans Affairs if it did not provide accurate figures of the taxpayer money spent on artwork.
Miller pointed to the $20 million VA officials have used to purchase paintings, sculptures and "ornamental furnishings" over the past decade in a letter to VA Secretary Robert McDonald on Friday, in which he demanded a full accounting of the funds diverted to agency art.
The Florida Republican noted his own committee had uncovered $6.5 million in expenses related to decorating rooms at a single VA facility in Palo Alto, Calif.
"Either the reported $20 million, 10-year total is incomplete, or the Palo Alto Healthcare System expenditures represent an extraordinarily large portion of VA's nationwide spending," Miller wrote.
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Considering Vets are being kicked to the curb, $2 artwork is overpaying. They should use all the 💵💵💵💵 towards vet healthcare. No further yacking needed. The administration needs to sell ever bit of it and put it where it belongs. Also misappropriation of funds is against the law. In the really real world it's called stealing! ☕️🚬
We were at our local VA hospital yesterday, and they were removing all the furniture in the waiting areas to replace it with brand new furniture. The old stuff was still very nice, and it wasn't more than a few years old.
I wonder whose friend got that contract?
There is a lot of money wasted in the VA in purchases of unnecessary items not related to veterans' health. I can see expansion of clinics but not constant decor makeovers.
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