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U.S. Congressional Tipoffs Involving Iowa Newsletter for Friday April 26, 2024 ( 1 items )  

Grassley to the Pentagon: 'These kinds of purchases are a slap in the face to the taxpayer'
WASHINGTON, April 24 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is demanding accountability from the Pentagon after a watchdog report revealed employees may have misspent millions of dollars in taxpayer money during the COVID-19 pandemic. Department of Defense (DOD) officials between March 2020 and January 2022 used Government Purchase Cards (GPCs) for 110,525 purchases, 43,396 of which the DOD Inspector General (IG) estimates employees  more