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Odd that President Trump seems to have time to issue executive orders overturning many of Obama's EO's, yet he does nothing to stop this order.
After all, while the State Department decided on moving the residence of the US Ambassador to the United Nations to a new location in 2016, the actual expenditure was made in 2017 (note that it is Ms. Halley's spokes-person that proclaimed that the authorization to spend the money on the mechanical curtains was made in 2016; however, that is not set in stone).
Yes, it's Fox's headline that puts the spin on it. NYT was pretty clear on the timeline of who approved what and when. They also compared it to Pruitt's desk and noted that ambassadors have different spending guidelines than agency chiefs.
did you bother to check out the NYT's headline? it's exponentially more spinny.
Quote:
Nikki Haley’s View of New York Is Priceless. Her Curtains? $52,701.
WASHINGTON — The State Department spent $52,701 last year buying customized and mechanized curtains for the picture windows in Nikki R. Haley’s official residence as ambassador to the United Nations, just as the department was undergoing deep budget cuts and had frozen hiring.
^all implying it's Haley's doing.
we have to wait 6 paragraphs before the slimes gets around to letting us know haley had nothing whatsoever to do with it
Yes, it's Fox's headline that puts the spin on it. NYT was pretty clear on the timeline of who approved what and when. They also compared it to Pruitt's desk and noted that ambassadors have different spending guidelines than agency chiefs.
Read the whole article. The Times headline implied Haley purchased these curtains. Lazy liberal readers stopped at the headline or the first few paragraphs and were responding with insulting comments about Haley and Trump. Of course the Times dropped the time line near the end of their article, a common practice of today’s journalist who feel they must include information they hope their readers don’t read. It’s there way of hiding the truth while still reporting.
Yes, it's Fox's headline that puts the spin on it. NYT was pretty clear on the timeline of who approved what and when. They also compared it to Pruitt's desk and noted that ambassadors have different spending guidelines than agency chiefs.
Indeed it was Fox Fake News.
I love the State Department’s attempt to rationalize the purchase :All she’s got is a part time maid ...Curtains have security and entertainment value.
Are these special anti magnetic can't hear through them, keep out sounds waves kinda curtains?
With what's been happening to people at embassies all over, IMO, the ambassador to the UN needs protection at home.
Anybody pissed off about this needs to check out what we spend on embassies. And the cost of moving them to please an ally.
Actually, the $30K for probably floor to ceiling glass wall curtain material doesn't shock me. Custom curtains are expensive. Adding $20K to them to make them mechanical seems to be the luxury part. The article doesn't state that they are anti-whatever.
The Anti-Swamp seems to have been Swamping it up pretty good.
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