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Jon Husted: “Some of these bureaucracies in the federal government are…”

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Published | Video Starts at 08:57

… the bill to the treasury, they don't let you know what line item it's supposed to come from. They don't actually explain what the expenditure is for. And so literally, Some of these bureaucracies in the federal government are treating budgets like a slush fund where they can spend it on whatever they want. is not accountable to a line item. So we can never really know if people want to talk about accountability to Congress. (08:57–09:07)

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Asserts that federal bureaucracies treat budgets like slush funds without accountability.

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