Being one of Aaron Schock's staffers seems to be
among the cushier jobs available these days.
Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., took at least 10 of his House staffers on a $10,053 taxpayer-funded trip to New York last September, where most of them had few official duties, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned. [...]
[A] Sun-Times examination has revealed that most of the Schock staffers — who worked in Peoria or Washington — did almost no government work during their taxpayer-funded weekend in New York.
Schock was in New York to attend events with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Of his 14 paid staffers, he took ten with him for the weekend, despite there apparently being no actual work for them to do there. Whether this will be
among the trips Schock ends up having to reimburse taxpayers for now that someone's looked into it remains to be seen.
As a reminder, the federal government is still living under "sequestration" budgets because House Republicans felt the government was spending too many moneys these days and vowed to shut the government down entirely if federal spending wasn't gutted. I just thought I'd mention that.