Senator Charles Grassley [R-IA] is pressuring the recently fired Architect of the Capitol to pay pack the $14,000 he allegedly cost taxpayers by misusing government vehicles for personal use. Blanton was fired by President Biden this month after an inspector general report accused him of using official vehicles for personal use. Blanton was also accused of trying to pass himself off as law enforcement. Grassley —one of the Senate’s leading watchdogs for waste, fraud and abuse — writes that Blanton’s behavior is an example of what a government official should never do.