Politician says stimulus money turned Obama administration corrupt
The incoming Chairman of the House of Representatives Oversight Committee,
Republican Darrell Issa, has referred to US President Barack Obama's government "one of the most corrupt."
Issa, the Republican congressman who is taking over responsibility for overseeing the cutdown of waste across federal bureaucracies, said: "When I look at waste, fraud and abuse in the bureaucracy and in the government, this is like steroids to pump up the muscles of waste."
Speaking on CNN's State of the Union program, he said: “When you hand out US$1 trillion in stimulus funds that this president asked for, plus this huge expansion in healthcare and government, it has a corrupting effect. The sooner the administration figures out that the enemy is the bureaucracy and the wasteful spending, not the other party, the better off we'll be."
But he said, any investigations made would focus on wasteful spending, not the prosecution of White House officials.
Mr Issa said investigations planned over the next two years could result in about US$200 billion in savings for US taxpayers.
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