The Biden administration’s State Department used $1.2 million of taxpayer money to upgrade swimming pools at U.S. embassies and missions in warn-torn and poverty-stricken countries, including Russia after it invaded Ukraine, according to an analysis by the office of Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa.

“Bureaucrats might think wasting millions is a drop in the bucket, but I am sick and tired of taxpayers getting tossed in the deep end by Washington,” Ernst told the New York Post in a story published Thursday.

Ernst leads the Senate DOGE Caucus, which she helped create to continue her work cutting waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government.

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