Government Under Scrutiny for Overly Generous Overseas Travel Spending

Four Democratic senators on Wednesday introduced a bill to curb what they see as wasteful travel and office spending by Trump administration appointees. The same day, an investigative group released a study showing that the U.S. government in some cases allows federal employees to spend twice as much on overseas travel per day as allied governments. “I have been appalled by the Trump administration officials who take advantage of taxpayers to subsidize first-class travel and other frivolous luxuries,” said Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., who introduced the Executive Branch Waste and Fraud Recovery Act with Democratic Sens. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Gary Peters of Michigan.