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. $75,000 of that was paid to bush's now husband, a man named courtney merits. congresswoman bush is vocal member of the progressive group dubbed the squad. she spoke to lawmakers yesterday about the doj investigation. >> i have endured relentless threats to my physical safety and life. as a rank and file of member of congress i am not entitled to personal protection by the house but 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 for personal security is simply false. in recent months right-wing organizations have lodged baseless complaints against me, peddling notions i have misused campaign funds to pay for personal security services. that simply is not true. >>> next up we'll turn to sports and we'll have the highlights from two big upsets in men's college basketball plus a baseball franchise on the rise appears to be getting some deep pocketed new owners. not good for the rest of the american east. that's all straight ahead when

. >> in march, bush faced fec ethics complaints for paying her husband, courtney merit, 60,000 in security then reportedly paid $40,000 in the first three quarters of last year. merit's worked security on bush's campaign and married last year and bush's office said merit is an army veteran and can provide security services at or below a fair market rate. at the time, merit's held no private security license in st. louis or here in dc. fec rules allows lawmakers to pay family members for bone fioed service members -- bona bonafide services for private security and representative needs it because there's been threats to her life and that she's using campaign funds, not taxpayer dollars. liz. elizabeth: you're always so good, rich. love your journalism there. thank you so much. welcome to the show washington times opinion editor charlie hurt. this is quite a story. what do you make of it? >> it really is. you've got a couple things going on here. it's sort of comical to listen to congresswoman bush claim these are right wing groups coming after her. last i checked doj is not a right wing grou

. >> now, in march, bush faced ethics complaints with the fec for paying courtney marts $60,000 for securityn her campaign in 2022. >> and more than $40,000 in the first nine months of last year. bush married marts in february of last year. at the time he held no private security license in st. louis or here in the district of columbia. bush's office has said he is an army veteran and security professional. federal law limits how candidates may spend their campaign money. fec rules allow lawmakers to pay family members for actual services at fair market value. bush says the office of congressional ethics investigated this situation last year, found no wrongdoing and voted unanimously to dismiss the case. the progressive congresswoman has reportedly spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on private security as a strong advocate of defunding police. bush has been criticized for that. >> maybe she wants to defund the police so she can steal more out of her campaign and pay her husband. >> bush justified the security expenditures saying she has been threatened and as a rank and file of the membe

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