The first family has spent over $10 million a year on travel and vacations, and the still growing bill has crossed over $85 million in eight years, according to a watchdog group, the Washington Examiner reports.
Judicial Watch, which has charted the travel of presidents for years, said this week that it has received a new batch of bills for the first family’s December break in Hawaii, bringing that trip to nearly $5 million. The Obama’s are expected to return to Hawaii this December.
The expenses cover items such as security, flights and hotel rooms for staff and U.S. Secret Service. They do not include the price of prepositioning ships and aircraft in the area or much of the communications costs.
From Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch announced today that it obtained records from the U.S. Secret Service revealing that its travel expenses for the First Family’s 2015 Hawaiian vacation cost taxpayers $1.2 million, which bring the total cost of the vacation trip to at least $4.8 million. This was the Obamas’ eighth Hawaiian family vacation. The trip has become an annual event for the Obamas. To date, Obama’s and his family’s travel expenses total at least $85,029,819.
The records obtained by Judicial Watch for Obama’s Secret Service travel to Hawaii reveal the following expenses totaling $1,234,316.67:
Hotel and lodging costs totaled $1,000,458.63.
The Secret Service spent $165,893.88 on car rentals.
Air and rail expenses totaled $67,964.16.
Although the vacation officially lasted from December 18, 2015, to January 3, 2016, the Secret Service rented several Kailua homes for 19 nights, starting from December 16. The total for the rentals, located near the Marine Corps base at Kaneohe Bay was $245,993.12.
According to bills obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Secret Service also paid for rooms at the Hawaii Prince Hotel Waikiki and Golf Club. The Secret Service also reserved rooms at the Moana Surfrider resort on Waikiki Beach, and the Ala Moana Hotel, which cost a total of $40,249.48 and $671,895.99, respectively.
The Secret Service rented cars from Avis, Alamo, and Hertz – 103 cars for the two-week vacation, totaling $165,893.88 in taxpayer money.
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Another photo of the POTUS showing off
This guy is a חזיר
The amounts are staggering, but the question is, is this in keeping with previous presidents’ bills, adjusted to inflation and security needs? Can costs be cut, to make things more normal?
The difference is, previous Presidents used to travel together with their wives, not separately. That alone cost us the taxpayers millions of extra dollars, for no good reason. That wife of his, Michelle, has really been abusive in that regard. She is inherently a spoiled brat. A classic gold digger. I can’t stand her. Uuch. I can’t wait till she’s gone. Am I allowed to say that without the Thought-Police arresting me?
Having said all that, what about Melania, now that she decided to stay in NYC? Will she be flown in to Washington every weekend? What will that cost us?
Please go away already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why hasn’t the Congress passed an Affordable Fare Act to limit this insane eight-years-long vacation?
Perhaps because even the similar sounding law doesn’t apply to the people on top, as literally NONE of them signed up for the president’s healthcare plan intended for the plebeians.
and they’re complaining about Trump’s bill of security ?????????????
what two-faced idiots…………………..