Ernst report shows $1.2 million spent in U.S. Embassy swimming pool

Biden administration State Council A report by Senator Joni Ernst found that more than $1 million in taxpayer funds were authorized to renovate swimming pools in mission residences in U.S. embassy and war-torn countries such as Haiti, Sudan and Iraq.

“The Biden State Department has held a blowout summer pool party on your dime,” R-Iowa Ernst said in a statement to Fox News Digital.

“The bureaucrats may think wasting millions is a drop in the barrel, but I’m tired of taxpayers being thrown away in the depths of Washington,” Ernst added. “I will continue to work with the Trump administration to stop the Biden year’s splash spending.”

Ernst’s office found Biden gives medicine According to the New York Post, two pools in Iraq were authorized to be renovated in Iraq, three in Sudan, one in Russia, one in Zimbabwe and one in Ghana, totaling more than $1.2 million.

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Taxpayers spent $41,259 to restore swimming pools at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in a contract three months later Russian invasion Ukraine is in a constant war. The order dates from June 3, 2022 until August 15, 2022, and the war began in February of the same year.

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Taxpayers spent $41,259 to restore swimming pools at the U.S. embassy three months after Russia invaded Ukraine in a persistent war. (Reuters)

The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad received a bonus of up to $444,000 to replace its contract for indoor dehumidification systems, which began on September 27, 2024. Iraq’s U.S. Consulate in Iraq received over $10,000 in funding to perform mechanical repairs on its swimming pools for mechanical restoration, and reported.

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In Sudan, taxpayers spent $24,000 on installing pool decks in 2021. Sudan has not traveled in the State Council in particular “due to armed conflict, civil strife, crime, terrorism and kidnapping”, the Khartoum embassy suspended operations for ongoing violent conflict across the country in 2023.

President Biden’s State Department has granted more than $1 million in taxpayer funds to restore the U.S. Embassy’s swimming pool, a new report by Senator Ernst shows. (Getty Image)

Some of the contracts detailed in the report have not been fully paid, such as the $173,000 reward for working in a swimming pool in Indonesia at the Jakarta Embassy.

The federal government has been criticized for the amount of taxpayer funds in the U.S. Embassy, including spending Big pen on the artwork Under the Obama administration, Fox Digital reported at the time.

The U.S. Embassy is mainly funded by granting congressional funds to the U.S. State Department.

Ernst’s report comes months after the Government’s Department of Efficiency reported that it has saved billions of dollars in search of corruption, overspending and mismanagement in an ongoing investigation of various federal agencies.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio Statewide, it has been at the forefront of the taint sector and plans, including the closure of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in early July because they failed to ensure that their plans actually support U.S. interests.

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Senator Joni Ernst’s office published a report in July that found that the Biden administration’s State Department approved more than $1 million in contracts to renovate the swimming pools of a handful of U.S. embassies in the war-torn country. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

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“This era of government-sanctioned inefficiency has officially come to an end. Under the Trump administration, we will finally have a foreign funding mission in America that prioritizes our national interests. As of July 1st, USAID will officially cease to implement foreign assistance. Foreign assistance programs that align with administration policies – and which advance American interests – will be administratored by the State Department, where they will be delivered with more accountability, strategy, and efficiency,” Rubio says Comments on closing USDA.