Taxpayers should be outraged. It was revealed
that John Boehner’s lawsuit against President Obama will cost the
American people $500 an hour in attorney fees.
According to Frank Thorp of NBC News, the contract
for the law firm that Boehner hired to represent the House in his
lawsuit against President Obama will cost taxpayers $500/hour.
Thorp tweeted:
Contract for BakerHostetler to handle repugican
lawsuit vs. Pres Obama "agrees to pay...at a blended rate of $500 per
hour for...attorney time."
Democratic Campaign Committee Chairman Steve Israel
ripped Boehner in a statement, “This outrageous waste of taxpayer
dollars is yet another reminder of House repugicans’ misguided
priorities. Only in John Boehner’s world does it make sense to pay
lawyers $500 per hour to work on a partisan lawsuit while refusing to
raise the minimum wage to $10.10 for hardworking Americans trying to
feed their families.”
This is an absurd waste of money. House repugicans
have been blocking an extension of unemployment benefits for the
long-term unemployed since January because they claim that it is too
expensive, but the Speaker is spending more on one hour of legal
representation that it would cost in many parts of the country to give
an unemployed American their benefits back for a week.
The cost of Boehner’s lawsuit against President
Obama has been a closely guarded secret. House repugicans have
repeatedly refused to say how much the lawsuit will cost in total, but
it is estimated that it will add up to millions of dollars. People need
to remember that this frivolous lawsuit represents everything that House
Repugicans stand for.
The lawsuit will be thrown out of court, but before
it is, it will cost taxpayers millions of dollars that could have been
used to create jobs, help veterans, or restore benefits to the
unemployed. John Boehner is interested in doing what the American people
want. His only purpose is to waste taxpayer money with gimmicks that he
hopes will keep House repugicans in power.
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