Ben Carson is trying to explain why his government department ordered a $31,000 dining set for his office

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• Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is under fire spending $ 31,000 on a lavish dining set for his office.
• The spending has resulted in a complaint to the Office of Special Counsel as well as a House Oversight Committee investigation.
• Carson’s office said Thursday it’s attempting to cancel the order for the dining set, which has not yet been delivered, but that “it might not be possible” due to bureaucracy.

Ben Carson, the Housing and Urban Development secretary, has been under fire for days over allegations of lavish spending on his office decor as the Trump administration proposes massive budget cuts to his agency.

The controversy came to a head on Thursday, when Carson’s staff said they were attempting to cancel an order for a $ 31,000 mahogany dining set to replace the 50-year-old table currently in Carson’s office. But rescinding the order “might not be possible,” Carson’s business manager, Armstrong Williams, told The New York Times.

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