Junketsleuth.com, an independent investigative reporting website that tracks how government agencies spend billions in taxpayer money on travel and related activities, has gone live.
“At a time when the government is operating at a deep budget deficit – and when many American families are too strapped financially to afford a trip of any kind – we thought it would be instructive to see how wisely federal agencies are using taxpayer dollars when traveling,” said Chris Carey, the site’s editor, in a statement.
The first database comes from the Department of Health and Human Services, an agency that includes the Food and Drug Administration, the Medicare and Medicaid programs and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The department accounts for roughly 20 percent of the federal budget. According to the travel database obtained by JunketSleuth, Health and Human Services employees spent roughly $530 million between 2005 and 2009, on trips that took them to all 50 states, four U.S. territories and 191 foreign countries.
The organization has retained Pulitzer Prize-winner Russell Carollo as a consultant to seek government documents and databases through Freedom of Information Act requests and to analyze the information received from federal agencies.
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