Freedom Caucus chairman wants financial audit of Mueller investigation

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, plans to request a financial audit of the special counsel investigating Russia’s influence campaign over the 2016 presidential election.

Meadows said in an interview set to air Sunday that he will ask for a review by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the non-partisan government watchdog that handles investigations for Congress. Meadows wants a full audit of expenses incurred by Robert Mueller and his team, Meadows told C-SPAN as first reported by the Washington Examiner.

Meadows said he wants the audit to ensure that Mueller, a former FBI director and U.S. attorney, is making proper use of the money provided to his team by Congress to look into Russian election meddling.