Posted by on March 24, 2025 3:50 pm
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CBS News reports:

The pardons of more than 1,500 rioters who seized the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 are expected to leave taxpayers on the hook for most of the damage, cleanup and costs of the insurrection.

Although federal judges ordered hundreds of the defendants to make restitution to the federal government to offset the costs of the repairs at the U.S. Capitol, only a fraction was paid before President Trump issued blanket pardons on Jan. 20, hours after his inauguration.

Citing recent reporting by CBS News, Democrats on the U.S. House Oversight Committee opened a review Monday into how much of the millions of dollars in costs went unpaid by rioters.

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