Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) confirmed Tuesday that the Justice Department is reviewing her campaign spending on security services and that she is cooperating with the investigation, and blamed right-wing organizations for lodging “baseless complaints.”
“First and foremost, I hold myself, my campaign, and my position to the highest levels of integrity. I also believe in transparency, which is why I can confirm that the Department of Justice is reviewing my campaign spending on security services,” Bush told reporters outside of the Capitol building.
“Since before I was sworn into office, I have endured relentless threats to my physical safety and life. As a rank-and-file member of Congress, I am not entitled to personal protection by the House and instead have used campaign funds as permissible to retain security services. I have not used any federal tax dollars for personal security services. Any reporting that I have used funds for personal security is simply false,” Bush said as part of her statement to the press, which said she was doing in order to “outline the facts and the truth.”
“In recent months, right-wing organizations have lodged baseless complaints against me, peddling notions that I have misused campaign funds to pay for personal security services. That simply is not true,” Bush continued.
“I am under no illusion that these right-wing organizations will stop politicizing and pursuing efforts to attack me and the work that the people of St. Louis sent me to Congress to do, to lead boldly, to legislate change my constituents can feel, and to save lives,” Bush later added.
