This. 1000 times this.
There have been *literal decades of research* on the deadweight economic loss that comes from corruption. It's both widely known and widely studied since before Hakeem Jeffries was born
T. Greg Doucette
Setting up a false dichotomy between prioritizing accountability and prioritizing affordability is shooting yourself in the foot by implicitly endorsing a narrative that it's one or the other, the former a distraction from the latter, as if they're competing goals and not two sides of the same coin.