![]() ![]() Secret Service costs included $1 million for lodging, $166,000 on 103 car rentals and $68,000 for air and rail expenses. Judicial Watch recently received records revealing that Secret Service expenses for the first family’s 2015 Hawaiian vacation cost taxpayers $1.2 million, bringing the total cost of the vacation trip to at least $4.8 million. Some more details on Obama’s vacation costs provided by Kumar via Judicial Watch’s records requests: (The Washington Post falsely claimed Bush took 879 days of vacation.) Kumar compares that to Bush’s vacation record, which Knoller says included 77 visits to his Texas ranch, which spanned all or part of 490 days, as well as 11 visits to his parent’s home in Kennebunkport, Maine, adding another 43 days, totaling 533 days. 2), he took a total of 29 vacations, which spanned all or part of 228 days – or an average of just under a month of vacation time a year. With Obama’s current 11-day trip to Hawaii included (a trip which began Dec. President-elect Donald Trump is also expected to save some costs by largely vacationing at his own resorts. Bush would frequently travel to his Texas ranch, where security would reportedly sleep in trailers, and thus saved costs for taxpayers. ![]() Bush, who actually vacationed more than Obama, the outgoing president’s vacations were not to his own property. So how in the world did he rack up such a bill? The exorbitant costs of Air Force One ( nearly $180,000 per hour), for starters, then add all the security costs, as Kumar notes, “helicopters, cargo planes, armored cars, Secret Service protection and advance, communications and medical staff.” Throw on the costs of the Obamas’ location of choice, Hawaii, and you get millions and millions billed to taxpayers. “In total, the cost of the the first family’s personal or largely personal travel during the last eight years comes to $85 million – though that is likely to climb to $90 million after additional records are released, according to the conservative group Judicial Watch based on federal government records.“ “As America’s first family enjoys its eighth and final vacation in Hawaii, new estimates put the price tag of the Obamas’ annual trip at $3.5 million or more,” writes Kumar. So how much in the end did all the trips to Hawaii, Martha’s Vineyard, and Florida cost us? McClatchy DC’s Anita Kumar did some calculating and arrived at some rather stunning numbers, including the grand total: $85 million. During his eight years in office, President Obama took full advantage of vacation time, a vast majority of which was on the taxpayer’s dime. ![]()
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