The Nation - News from Aug. 11, 1987
President Reagan, under fire from Congress for padding his staff with employees carried on departmental payrolls, will reimburse agencies for their salaries starting in October, Ben Jarratt, assistant White House press secretary, said. The General Accounting Office reported in July that the White House had augmented its staff with 349 employees on “detail” from Cabinet departments during the first five years of the Administration. The GAO said that the Administration often had failed to reimburse the parent departments or report the “detailees” to Congress, as required by law. Jarratt dismissed GAO’s charges as a “differing interpretation” of the law.
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