The federal government has spent at
least $20 billion in taxpayer money this year on items and services that
it is permitted to keep secret from the public, according to an
investigation by the News4 I-Team.
The
purchases, known among federal employees as “micropurchases,” are made
by some of the thousands of agency employees who are issued
taxpayer-funded purchase cards. The purchases, in most cases, remain
confidential and are not publicly disclosed by the agencies. A sampling
of those purchases, obtained by the I-Team via the Freedom of
Information Act, reveals at least one agency used those cards to buy
$30,000 in Starbucks Coffee drinks and products in one year without
having to disclose or detail the purchases to the public.
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