How about the millions of tax dollars "it" spent on vacations?
In 2010, "it", her mama and daughters took a $467,000 trip to Spain. Along for the ride were two friends and their four daughters! The cost of flying the plane to Malaga, then to Majorca and back to the United States, added up to $199,323.75.
For the 15-member flight crew, the government paid $10,290.60 for hotel rooms, $2,633.50 for rental cars and $876.30 for food, including $57.68 for four bottles of maple syrup and a package of pancake mix.
The cost of Secret Service protection totaled $254,461.20, including $26,670.61 for a chauffeured tour of Costa del Sol and $50,078.78 for the services of a travel planning company, according to Judicial Watch. The government paid for lodging for a security dog and its handler as well.
2014 trip to China cost American taxpayers $362,523.53 in travel expenses alone. Mrs. Obama, her daughters, and her mother spent March 19 – 26 in China, in a trip highlighted by extended visits to some of the country’s most popular tourist sites. Mrs. Obama, her mother and daughters toured China, she stayed in Beijing’s Westin Hotel in a suite costing you $8,400 per night. Previously, that price was deemed too expensive for Vice President Joe Biden to use.
Cost to taxpayers for the Obamas’ Ireland trip was $7,921,638.66. Michelle took her daughters on a two-day, side-trip to Dublin. That side-trip alone cost U.S. taxpayers a quarter-million dollars, including a $3,300-a-night hotel suite of the sort Mrs. Obama prefers.
$57,068.80 in travel expenses alone for the 7.4 hour-round trip flights to Aspen, according to U.S.Air Force records.
The flights to London, England; and Milan, Venice, and Vicenza, Italy, for the June 15 – 21, 2015, trip totaled 20:35 hours at the cost of $11,684 per hour, bringing the flight expense total to $240,495.67, according to the Air Force documents.
Mrs. Obama’s latest foreign junket this month was to Japan and Cambodia, allegedly to promote an Agency for International Development program to encourage education for girls. On a one-day, side-trip to visit two shrines in Kyoto, including one honoring a god of rice, Michelle Obama’s party incurred almost $79,000 in expenses just for rental cars.
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