ICYMI: Don Davis Blew $10k in Taxpayer Dollars how?!
How do you blow $10,000-worth of taxpayer dollars in one day at the U.S.-Mexico border?
Ask Don Davis.
A new report shows that in 2024, Davis spent nearly $10k in taxpayer dollars for a one-day photo op at the Southern border, including:
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$6,700 on air travel
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And a mind-boggling $2,300 on ride shares (aka Uber).
Since then, Liberal Don Davis has voted to defund immigration enforcement and border patrol officers (he has to find a way to pay for his taxpayer-funded junkets somehow)!
“Liberal Don Davis spent $10,000 on a taxpayer-funded Southern border photo-shoot during the height of the Biden Border Crisis, and then voted to defund ICE and Border Patrol. It’s a $10,000 political stunt that proves he cares more about his image than North Carolinians safety.” — CLF spokeswoman Lydia Hall.
Riding in Style: North Carolina Rep. Don Davis Billed Taxpayers $2,300 in Ride Shares on Day He Toured Southern Border
Washington Free Beacon
Andrew Kerr
In January 2024, Rep. Don Davis (D., N.C.) traveled to Eagle Pass, Texas, for a one-day tour of the southern border. He appears to have spent over $2,300 on taxis or ride shares on a trip that cost taxpayers nearly $10,000 in total.
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It’s unclear how Davis, whose office did not respond to a request for comment, racked up the tab.
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The revelation of Davis’s liberal use of taxpayer funds comes as Americans express concerns over wasteful government spending. Sixty-one percent of Americans say the federal government is “wasteful,” compared with just 24 percent who do not, according to an August 2025 Partnership for Public Service poll.
Davis used his visit to Eagle Pass to call for a bipartisan commitment to border security. Then, in 2025, he was one of 48 Democrats to vote in favor of the Laken Riley Act.
As a North Carolina state senator, however, Davis carried a more liberal voting record on immigration issues, opposing legislation that penalized sanctuary city policies and required local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE.