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AARP Sweetheart Deals with Federal Government Face Renewed Scrutiny

posted onApril 8, 2019
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Article snippet: The AARP foundation has, since the beginning of the Trump administration, received more than $111,000,000 in taxpayer funding from a variety of sources. They come from departments and agencies as wide-ranging as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Department of Labor (DOL), the IRS, and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), per sources that have calculated the various grants and contracts. From HHS, the AARP foundation has received during the Trump administration a $235,290 grant and a $9,995 contract purchase order. From DOJ, the group has received during the Trump administration a $2 million grant. From the DOL during the Trump administration, the organization has received two grants totaling $90,388,686 and during the Trump administration the IRS has given the group one grant for $9,496,545 while CNCS under Trump has given AARP’s foundation five grants totaling $9,309,241. In total, that means the Trump administration has given the AARP’s foundation a whopping $111,439,757 in taxpayer money. An AARP spokesman defended the government grants and contracts in a statement to Breitbart News. “Like many charities, the AARP, has been awarded some government grants to help its work on behalf of low-income seniors,” an AARP spokesman said. But Republicans, one administration official told Breitbart News on condition of anonymity, see potential corruption swirling around AARP –the Medigap pre-exist... Link to the full article to read more

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