An expensive overseas journey by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo‘s other half was partially moneyed by taxpayers due to the fact that it was “ required for nationwide security,” insisted some State Department officials in a memo obtained by Politico.
Others disagreed that public cash ought to be invested so that Susan Pompeo could accompany her partner on his tour of the Middle East early in 2015 during the government shutdown, when funds were particularly tight and federal government employees were overdue.
Susan Pompeo had actually been invited to occasions in Cairo and Abu Dhabi as part of the trip.
” To decline the invite now might be viewed as lack of courtesy, but there is no significant diplomacy interest here conserve the concern of courtesy,” argued the State Department’s Near Eastern Affairs bureau, which manages the Middle East, according to the exact same memo dated the day the trip began.
Susan Pompeo went on the trip.
Her journey is apparently now part of an investigation by the State Department inspector general’s office on whether the Pompeos have utilized publ