Van Drew spent almost $30k on Washington eateries, sometimes on days he skipped COVID meetings

After less than two years in Congress, Rep. Jeff Van Drew developed a penchant for fine dining at some of Washington’s swankiest steakhouses, even on days when he had missed House committee meetings.

Fortunately for the retired dentist from a working class South Jersey district, he didn’t have to pick up the tab himself.

During his first term in Congress, Van Drew used his re-election campaign account to pick up nearly $30,000 worth of meals and beverages, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.

More than 77% of that was spent at two upscale steakhouses where the freshman Democrat-turned-Republican has seemingly become a regular: Prime Rib, where waiters wear tuxedos and walk on a legendary leopard skin carpet; and at the Steakhouse Del Frisco, where a bone-in Strip Steak goes for $68.

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