In just the last fiscal year, Democrat Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell charged more than $288,000 on her taxpayer-funded credit card, including transactions in 31 states, multiple foreign trips, and Disney World.
Campbell's office charged a whopping $288,146.26 to state-issued procurement cards, called P-cards, between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025. Besides the travel expenses, charges for catered office parties were also included.
One of the most egregious abuses of taxpayer dollars was a trip to France that cost $13,627--nearly $9,000 for luxury chauffeur services and over $2,000 for air travel.
The office also spent $10,286 to rent overflow space at a hotel for an annual cyber crimes conference in April and over $1,000 on several occasions for office parties and events.
Campbell's actions have caught the attention of Republican lawmakers in the state, who have decried her liberal use of taxpayer funds for non-necessary items.
According to the Boston Herald, they are complaining that Campbell has spent thousands of dollars on hotels in Washington, D.C. since President Donald Trump took office as her office has repeatedly sued the Trump administration over his policy advancements.
Campbell claims that she is fighting against Trump's "illegal" attacks on people's rights and freedoms and said her spending was a "small price to pay" in order to do so.
She is also spending a sizeable chunk of her $83 million overall budget fighting Trump in the courts--spending that is mirrored by many of the other Democrat state AGs.
Republicans are further angered that she has not completed an ordered audit and seems to be dragging her feet.
Maybe that's because she knows what the auditors will find and is trying to delay the inevitable as long as possible to avoid accountability.
Many taxpayers have had to cut back on their expenses in the wake of inflation that has nearly doubled the costs in some sectors of the economy, so it is especially painful to be stuck footing the bill for lawmakers who feel no similar compunction to keep their own expenses in check.
Furthermore, all across the United States, billions and billions of dollars are being spent by states and the federal government to fight each other.
Staffing costs, court costs, travel costs, and all of it paid for by the tax dollars of the citizens of the United States.
It seems like such a waste of time, money and resources that could be going to building up our great country rather than tearing it down.
