Two senior Republicans are ratcheting up a long-simmering dispute with the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development over how officials are spending funds under the 2009 stimulus law.
Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the ranking member of the Finance Committee, and Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri, the ranking member of an Appropriations Committee sub-panel on housing, sent HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan a page letter this week detailing their complaints.
In the letter — a follow-up to an exchange between Donovan and Grassley in March — Grassley and Bond accuse HUD of providing incomplete or unsatisfactory answers about stimulus funds distributed to public housing authorities (PHAs) that are considered at risk for financial abuse.
“We remain concerned about the waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars being given to PHAs with less than stellar track records,” Grassley and Bond wrote Donovan in the letter on Wednesday.
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