A new inspector general report shows the swamp is getting swampier

The Daily 202's Big Idea

The Washington Post

Politics, News, Daily News

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🗓️ 28 August 2018

⏱️ 8 minutes

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A damning new inspector general's report released Monday concludes that the head of the General Services Administration may have misled Congress about President Trump’s personal role in scuttling plans for a new FBI headquarters outside of Washington.

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0:15.0	Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post
0:21.0	and this is the Daily 202 for Tuesday August 28th. In today's news
0:27.0	President Trump claims victory in trade negotiations with Mexico. The father of
0:32.2	Molly Tibbukes rebukes people who were politicizing
0:34.7	his daughter's murder and the president has turned John McCain's death into
0:39.5	another political firestorm about himself.
0:45.0	But first, the big idea.
0:50.0	The swamp keeps getting swampier.
0:52.0	A damning new inspector General's report released Monday,
0:56.0	concludes that the head of the General Services Administration may have misled Congress
1:00.0	about President Trump's hands-on-roll in scuttling plans for a new FBI
1:05.0	headquarters outside of Washington. The report from the independent government
1:09.0	watchdog says GSA officials also misrepresented the costs of their replacement plan to build a new headquarters
1:15.2	in downtown DC by making it seem as though it would cost less than the original plan when it would
1:20.0	actually cost more.
1:22.0	The report says Aaron Murphy, the Trump appointee who runs the
1:24.7	agency which manages all federal real estate, gave quote incomplete answers to
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