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Pelosi's New Fight with DoD

From The Hill

Pentagon officials are bracing for a fight with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) over her desire to allow lawmakers’ adult children to tag along on taxpayer-funded travel for free.

Pelosi wants them to be able to fill the role of lawmakers’ spouses when the latter are unable to make a trip because of health issues or work commitments.

So Pelosi thinks the taxpayers should foot the bill for the children of Congressmen to travel???