Epoch Times:
President Donald Trump on July 30 accused Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and other Baltimore politicians of wasting and stealing billions of dollars sent to the city in federal aid.
“It’s been misspent. It’s been missing. It’s been stolen with a lot of corrupt government. And as you know, Cummings has been in charge,” the president told reporters on the White House lawn.
“I think that Representative Cummings should take his Oversight Committee and start doing oversight in Baltimore. He’d find out some real things,” Trump added.
Cummings’ office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. Following Trump’s remarks, Cummings shared a pair of opinion pieces on his Twitter account. One is titled “Trump Attacks on Baltimore, Cummings Become Political Litmus Test, with Democratic Presidential Debates Ahead,” and the other is titled “Elijah Cummings Is No Racist.”
Trump’s accusation is the latest in a war of words with Cummings that has lasted for days. It began with the president’s comment on July 27, calling Cummings a “brutal bully” for shouting at federal immigration authorities about the conditions on the southwest border with Mexico. The president said that the conditions are far worse in Cummings’s district, calling it “a disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess.” Cummings responded to the criticism by saying he fights for his constituents.
Cummings’s district received $16 billion in taxpayer money in 2018, according to Lynne Patton, the regional administrator for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
“We have given more money in homeless funds to Baltimore than the last administration. We have given more money in community development grants than the last administration to Baltimore,” Patton told Fox News. “My question to you guys is this: What are you actually doing with the money so that it benefits residents in the community for once, instead of deep-pocket crooked politicians?”
In remarks to reporters on the White House lawn on July 30, Trump said, “Baltimore has been very badly mishandled for many years,” and pointed to the city’s former mayors.
Cummings’s district received $16 billion in taxpayer money in 2018, according to Lynne Patton, the regional administrator for the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
“We have given more money in homeless funds to Baltimore than the last administration. We have given more money in community development grants than the last administration to Baltimore,” Patton told Fox News. “My question to you guys is this: What are you actually doing with the money so that it benefits residents in the community for once, instead of deep-pocket crooked politicians?”
In remarks to reporters on the White House lawn on July 30, Trump said, “Baltimore has been very badly mishandled for many years,” and pointed to the city’s former mayors. MORE
So a government administrator wants to know what a local government did with the federal grant money it was given when it is the obligation of the federal administrator to know what they did with the money it was given and to stop any illegal shenanigans!
$16 billion = 16,000,000,000
The United States is divided into 435 congressional districts, each with a population of approx 710,000 individuals.
Cummings 7th Congressional District has approx 738,000 residents according to the Census data.
16,000,000,000 divided by 738,000 = $ 21,680 for every man woman and child.
Where’s the money, Elijah?
President Trump is like your only relative that will speak candidly when your entire family refuses to face the truth.
I adore such relatives.
The presumption of corruption and illegality for EVERY member or both Houses of Congress is irrefutable.
NO ONE but President Trump has spoken or shown the will to reveal the crimes that politicians eagerly and continually commit against The People.
If a hair on his head is harmed by this enormous cabal, The People must rise or this country is toast.
No mention in the linky of Pelosi’s progenitor, Tommaso G. D’Alesandro?
— Epoch Fail
Cummings could be the Governor of Puerto Rico.
Look in cummings back pocket and in pelosi’s pocketbook: you’ll find the money.
Touche.
$16 billion would buy 100,000 homes at $160,000 each. They could have bulldozed the ghettos and built new row houses for the people.
Sixteen billion dollars for one little district? That’s billion with a “B”! $16B? Heck I don’t think the entire state of The Land of Entrapment gets that much and we’ve got 2 million people.
Grifting is a way of life once Amish Democrats are in control.
It’s True.
Democrat Theft and Thievery.
And there is Proof.
Where?
Where is the Proof?
Right in front of your eyes. . .
msNBC hasn’t mentioned it all morning.
Absolute Radio Silence.
Rats have the right to live in better conditions than the people of Baltimore.
WHAT DID YOU DO WITH THE MONEY, MAN?
Bottom line, after 14 terms, elections are never fixed,,,
Sure their not.