🤨"DOJ projecting spec. counsels will spend $4 million in next fiscal yr—fraction of $29 mil they are expected to rack up in year ending in Sept.
The new est— contained in Biden’s budget sent to Congress Mon— comes as Smith's handling criminal cases against Trump and Hunter Biden are gearing up for as many as four trials in the coming mos.
@riley I wouldn't read that into it. "It’s unclear how the Justice Department arrived at its estimate given the deep uncertainty about when and whether two complex Trump cases, both being handled by special counsel Jack Smith, will go before a jury. A DOJ spokesperson had no immediate comment on the figures."