[rlmorel]

"...Staffers also “lack the guidance they need to make day-to-day decisions on optimal allocation of limited U.S. government resources..."

If one ever needed an example of bloated federal bureaucracy, it is the concept that 100 million dollars for a single embassy is representative of "limited U.S. government resources".

[xp38]

Living the Kennedy lifestyle in Japan is expensive apparently. Remember the White House budget is around one a half billion although to be fair a huge chunk of that is running and maintaining the Air Force 1 fleet.