Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin used taxpayer dollars to fund personal trips, ethics complaint alleges
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Government watchdog group files ethics complaint against Sen. Tammy Baldwin, alleging "misappropriation of taxpayer funds" for New York trips.
Baldwin staffers told the outlet the trip was mistakenly "mislabeled" as official travel. Jamie Joseph is a writer who covers politics. She leads Fox News Digital coverage of the Senate.
"Federal law and the Select Committee on Ethics make it clear that the expenditure of public funds must occur only for appropriated purposes," the complaint states. "Here, public reporting indicates that Senator Baldwin has run afoul of these prohibitions by expending taxpayer dollars for exclusively personal travel to New York — a geographic location well outside of Wisconsin, and far from the constituency that she represents."