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The Ernst report reveals $ 1.2 million spent on US Embassy pools abroad

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The State Department of Administration Biden has authorized more than a million dollars in taxpayers to renovate swimming pools in American embassies and mission residences in war -torn countries like Haiti, Sudan and Iraq, said a report by Senator Joni Ernst.

“The Biden State Department has organized a Summer Summer Summer Day,” Ernst, R-Iowa said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital.

“Bureaucrats might think that the waste of millions is a drop in the bucket, but I am sick and tired of taxpayers who have launched in depth by Washington,” added Ernst. “I will continue to work with the Trump administration to end the expenses of Biden years.”

Ernst’s office found that the Biden Administration Department of Administration authorized that two swimming pools in Haiti, five in Iraq, three in Sudan, one in Russia, one in Zimbabwe and one in Ghana are renovated, totaling more than $ 1.2 million, according to the New York Post, which reportedly account for the renovations of the pool on Thursday.

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Baghdad swimming pool

The United States Embassy in Baghdad received $ 444,000 to replace its internal dehumidification system for its swimming pool in a contract. (Reuters)

Taxpayers spent $ 41,259 to rehabilitate the swimming pool at the United States Embassy in Moscow in a contract signed three months after Russia invaded Ukraine in a war that continued to rage. The order form was dated June 3, 2022 until August 15, 2022, after the start of the war in February of the same year.

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American Embassy in Russia

Taxpayers spent $ 41,259 to rehabilitate the swimming pool at the United States Embassy in Moscow in a contract signed three months after Russia invaded Ukraine in a war that continued to rage. (Reuters)

The United States Embassy in Baghdad received $ 444,000 to replace its internal dehumidification system for its swimming pool in a contract that started on September 27, 2024. While the American consulate in Erbil, Iraq, received more than $ 10,000 to make mechanical repairs to its pool.

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In Sudan, taxpayers spent $ 24,000 in 2021 for the installation of a swimming pool bridge. Sudan has notably been part of a State Department, not having advice “due to armed conflicts, civilian disorders, crime, terrorism and kidnapping”, with the Khartoum Embassy by suspending operations in 2023 on the violent conflicts in progress in the country.

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President Biden’s State Department has granted more than a million dollars in taxpayers to rehabilitate swimming pools to American embassies, according to a new report from the Senator Ernst office. (Getty Images)

Some of the detailed contracts in the report have not been fully paid, such as a reward of $ 173,000 to carry out work on a swimming pool in Indonesia at the Jakarta Embassy.

The federal government has already been criticized for the amount of taxpayers’ funds spent on American embassies abroad, in particular by going from heavy sums of big things in works of art under the Obama administration, Fox Digital reported at the time.

American embassies are mainly funded by Congress credits to the United States Department of State.

Ernst’s report follows months from the Ministry of Government Effectiveness, reporting the billions of dollars in the federal government in the midst of its current investigations into various federal agencies looking for corruption, excessive spending and mismanagement.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio was at the forefront of the state victim departments and programs, in particular by closing USAID earlier in July so as not to ensure that his programs really supported the interests of America.

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Senator Joni Ernst speaks

Senator Joni Ernst’s office published a report in July concluding that the Biden Administration Department has approved more than a million dollars in contracts to renovate swimming pools in a handful of American embassies in countries torn by war. (Samuel Corum / Getty Images)

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“This era of ineffectiveness sanctioned by the government has officially ended. Under the Trump administration, we will finally have a foreign financing mission in America which has favored our national interests. Since July 1, USAID will officially cease American interests – will be administered by the State Department, where they will be delivered with more responsibility with strategy and efficiency,” Rubio said In the comment concerning the climbing USAID.

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