Hegseth Wants $50,000 for 'Emergency' Paint Job to Move into Military Family Housing, Lawmakers Say
Source: Military.com
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is looking to live in military family housing and requested to use $137,000 in taxpayer funding for repairs -- including nearly $50,000 for an "emergency" paint job -- a pair of top Democratic lawmakers said in a letter Friday demanding more details.
While it is not unprecedented for a defense secretary to live in military housing, it is far more common for them to find private housing. And the reported price tag to fix up Hegseth's military house comes as rank-and-file service members continue to struggle with crumbling, unsafe living conditions and as the Trump administration has been looking to slash government spending elsewhere.
"We know that many service members and their families currently live in unacceptable housing conditions including houses with mold, lead paint, and other hazards," Democratic Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida and Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut said in their letter to Hegseth about his housing. "What commitment will you make to provide service members with a similarly high quality of housing for themselves and their families?"
DeLauro is the ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee, and Wasserman Schultz is the ranking member of the panel's subcommittee in charge of military construction funding.
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How big a house is it Hegseth? When I repainted mine I think spent a few hundred dollars on paint, brushes and rollers. But then I did all the labor.
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....the bedroom ceilings in the same style as the Sistine Chapel. You do know Michelangelo is quite pricey,... correct ?
Now we've got Ft Sam near me, and it' has a "historic district". Commissioned shortly the Civil War. We've got Pershing House over there at 10,00 sq ft.
