Dem Senator Refunds Government After She’s Caught Taking Personal Trip on Taxpayers’ Dime

A Democratic senator is being forced to pay up after being caught in a lie from several years ago. Remember back in 2020 when we were told by leftist politicians that we were not allowed to see our families for…

IJR SyndicatedAug 29, 20233 min read

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On the same day, she also urged Wisconsinites to follow COVID protocols as the pandemic was “raging” and “getting worse.”

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But while she was ordering her constituents to shut themselves in during the holidays and celebrate without their loved ones, she joined her fellow Democrats in breaking her own rules.

According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the openly gay Baldwin had used $630 of taxpayer money to fly from Madison to New York City for a personal vacation to visit her partner Maria Brisbane for four days.

The Journal Sentinel asked Baldwin’s office about the transaction and the use of taxpayer money for a personal trip, and in response, her office reimbursed the federal government for this trip.

The office claimed that staffers had erroneously marked the trip as official travel.

While her staffers defended her actions as merely a filing error, Republican officials were quick to call out what they called blatant Hypocrisy.

“Tammy Baldwin should change her campaign slogan to ‘Do as I say, not as I do,'” said Tate Mitchell, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

While this is another example of the rampant Hypocrisy that the left demonstrated during the COVID era, this situation gets even worse when you remember that she misused taxpayer money to pay for her trip.

Sure, she reimbursed the federal government for the trip, but it was nearly three years later, and only after the media had caught on to her actions.

This is a misuse of funds, plain and simple, and she needs to be held accountable for what she did.

Yet again, we see the mantra of the left on full display, “Do as I say, not as I do.”

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.