Minor-league stuff, but here we go again with the 'little white lies'.
Quoted in Emails Reveal Ben Carson and Wife Personally Selected $31,000 Dining Table. (The New Civil Rights Movement. 3/14/2018)
“The secretary did not order a new table,” said Carson, the HUD secretary. “The table was ordered by the career staffers in charge of the building.”
Original 3/7/2018 post, "Setting U.S. housing priorities: Ben Carson must feel like a winning contestant on The Price is Right", starts here.
Source; Hickory Chair
See HUD's $31,000 mahogany dining set. (CNN, 2/28/2018)
But it's the Jefferson sideboard, wood top and breakfront deck base (pictured) from the Alexa Hampton Collection that really racked up the charges. The three pieces total $13,579.
Related reading:
Trump Budget Would Increase Homelessness and Hardship in Every State, End Federal Role in Community Development. (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 5/27/2017)
US housing department to spend $165,000 on own furniture as it faces $6.8bn budget cut. (The Guardian, 2/27/2018)
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