‘Budget-Crunched’ VA Has 167 Interior Designers On Staff
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Luke Rosiak
Investigative Reporter
8:50 PM 08/08/2016
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President Barack Obama inspects the new White House china service on April 27, 2015, in the China Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., in the United States. (Wikimedia Commons) President Barack Obama inspects the new White House china service on April 27, 2015, in the China Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., in the United States. (Wikimedia Commons)
An army of 167 interior designers work at the Department of Veterans Affairs, picking window blind colors and buying millions of dollars of art each year, an investigation from The Daily Caller News Foundation has found.
The designers’ salaries are not included in recent findings that the VA has spent $16 million on art during the Obama administration. At least a dozen individual pieces of art cost a quarter million dollars or more each. Nearly $700,000 was spent on two sculptures at a hospital for blind veterans, the Palo Alto Polytrauma and Blind Rehabilitation Center.
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