The White House’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year anticipates special counsel Robert Mueller will still be at work investigating President Trump’s alleged ties to Russia.
According to the Trump administration’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2019 released Monday, $10 million is allocated for the special counsel’s office.
Mueller, whose investigation is looking into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign, was appointed in May 2017.
In December, his office released a statement of expenditures showing for the first four and a half months, the probe cost taxpayers nearly $7 million. That included $3.2 million in costs associated with Mueller’s team, and $3.5 million by spent by the Department of Justice and FBI in supporting of that team.
A special counsel is required to produce an expense report every six months.
Last year, Mueller unveiled charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates, foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos and former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn.
Last month, Mueller’s team announced it had subpoenaed and would be questioning former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.
