Trump: $16 Billion to Baltimore Was ‘Stolen or Wasted, Ask Elijah Cummings Where it Went’

The federal government has sent billions of dollars to Baltimore in recent years but the money has been either “stolen or wasted,” President Trump said.

President Donald Trump (L) makes his way across the South Lawn to board Marine One on his way to Newport News, Virginia on March 2, 2017. Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) speaks to the media at the University of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland on May 5, 2015. Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images; Drew Angerer/Getty Images

The federal government has sent billions of dollars to Baltimore in recent years but the money has been either “stolen or wasted,” President Donald Trump said late July 29.

Writing on Twitter, Trump wrote: “Baltimore’s numbers are the worst in the United States on Crime and the Economy. Billions of dollars have been pumped in over the years, but to no avail. The money was stolen or wasted.”