Trump signs bill preventing taxpayer money from being used for portraits of federal employees

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY JOHN BOWDEN - 03/28/18 11:29 AM EDT

President Trump on Wednesday signed into law a longstanding GOP plan to cut spending among top officials at federal agencies which bars taxpayer funds from being used to commission portraits of current and former federal employees.

The "Eliminating Government-funded Oil-painting Act," introduced in January 2017 by Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy (R) and signed into law by Trump this week, prohibits any taxpayer dollars from being used by federal agencies for portraits of current or former directors.

The new law affects all federal employees, including the president, and was spurred by a report detailing more than $400,000 spent on official portraits of government employees since 2010.

Trump's signature also comes just after his secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, was reported to have tried to re-allocate funds meant for office furniture to commission portraits of former HUD secretaries whose portraits were not included in a wall of portraits at HUD.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/380642-trump-signs-bill-preventing-taxpayer-money-from-being-used-for

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[notdarkyet]

1. Trump images, statues, named bills or resolutions will all be destroyed as were

Akhenatens when he died in ancient Egypt. A reviled pharaoh from his unpopular changes, the people wanted to destroy any memory of the reviled leader. So to will happen to trump.

[MGKrebs]

2. That Ben Carson, he sure has his priorities straight.

Has he done any actual work yet?

[GeorgeGist]

3. So much winning!

[IronLionZion]

4. Ben Carson is my favorite Trump official

They should appoint him as their next presidential candidate.

[Doitnow]

5. Good idea. Sounds like he already knows how reviled he is.

[groundloop]

6. It's good to see that 45* is handling this important and difficult agenda

[WhiteTara]

7. He can be swept from history

except as the criminal he is. No portrait for that piece of scum.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. I suppose he will repurpose these to substitute

[RobinA]

9. Thats A Load

off my mind!!

[Blue_playwright]

10. Obama portraits were huge hits

I bet that’s the real reason behind it. Dude is still obsessed with Obama!

[Bengus81]

11. But a few MILLION per weekend for another Golf outing is ok for tax payer money.....

Trump is leaving tomorrow and spending a week over on the left side of Florida. No doubt "official" business that will take an hour then a week of golfing.

[procon]

12. Why does anyone in government need a portrait painted when a photographer

can do the job for a fraction of the cost. C'mon people, this isn't the 18th century, cameras have been around for over two hundred years, so lets see a little 21st century progress here.

[SergeStorms]

13. That'll help me sleep better tonight.

Finally, the horror of those oil paintings will stop haunting me.

[sinkingfeeling]

14. What a relief! He's saving us $50,000 a year. How much does one of his

little trips to Florida cost us?