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House Approves Financial Oversight Over Costly Mueller Probe [VIDEO]

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The U.S. House of Representatives approved a measure Friday to require financial oversight of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

The amendment, which passed 207-201, was introduced by North Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Meadows and would require the Government Accountability Office to perform a semi-annual audit of special counsels, The Hill reported. This comes after it was reported nearly a week before that the Special Counsel’s Office spent more than $4.5 million on the Russia investigation from October 2017 to March 2018, bringing the total spending to more than $7.7 million.

“A special counsel’s work is important, but they should not be able to spend taxpayer dollars without accountability. Americans need to know where their money is going,” Meadows said on Twitter.

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I’ve introduced an amendment to require a semi-annual financial audit of special counsels by the GAO.

A special counsel’s work is important, but they should not be able to spend taxpayer dollars without accountability. Americans need to know where their money is going. pic.twitter.com/ZXEbFSPVMI

— Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) June 8, 2018

More than $2.7 million of Mueller’s latest expenses was spent on “personnel compensation and benefits.”

The measure will be part of a spending package that includes the first three spending bills of the 2019 fiscal year and will need support from the Senate.

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