The Mueller probe has already been funded until September:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team investigating US President Donald Trump and his associates have been subsidized until the end of September 2019, three US officials said Monday. , indicating that the survey had funds to keep it. go for months if need be.

The operations and funding of the Mueller office have not been addressed in budget requests for the next government fiscal year released Monday by the White House and the Justice Department, as Mueller's office is funded by the Treasury under special regulations issued by the Ministry of Justice. I said.

"The special council is financed by the credits of the independent council, a permanent and indefinite credit established in the finance law of 1988 of the ministry," said a spokesman of the Ministry of Justice.

More and more speculation in recent weeks indicates that Mueller's team is about to close and is likely to submit a report summarizing its findings to Attorney General William Barr within a day or a week. Mueller's office did not comment on information suggesting an impending release.

Representatives of key congressional committees involved in Trump investigations said they did not receive any direction from Mueller's office regarding the progress of his investigation or his future plans.

The investigation, which began in May 2017, aims to determine whether there was any links or coordination between the Russian government led by Vladimir Putin and the Trump presidential campaign in 2016, pursuant to a signed ordinance by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Critics of the investigation, including Trump's allies, suggested that the investigation constituted an improper use of taxpayer funds and that it should be quickly closed.

Department of Justice records show that Mueller's office reported spending approximately $ 9 million in the fiscal year from October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018. No figures are available for the current year .

Ninety days before the start of a fiscal year of the federal government, which begins Oct. 1, special councils such as Mueller "must report to the Attorney General on the state of progress. of the investigation and submit a budget request for the following year, "according to the report. regulations.

Ministry officials stated that under this regulation, a special council should seek funding for the next fiscal year by the end of June. It is not known if Mueller is preparing such a request for the 2020 exercise.

Russia has denied being ingested during the 2016 presidential election. Trump said that there was no collusion between his campaign and Moscow and called the investigation Mueller's "witch hunt".