Guess How Much Obama’s One Day Trip To Brussels Cost Us?
$1,522,646.36.
Via Weekly Standard:
In late March, President Obama took a week-long trip through Europe which included a stop of less than 24 hours in Brussels, Belgium for meetings with the European Union and NATO. The president stayed at The Hotel, a twenty-seven story hotel in the center of the city. The estimated cost for the president’s stay, including about two weeks for an advance team, was $1,522,646.36.
Despite reports that the president travelled with an entourage of 900, the Justification and Approval documents only indicate a need for “283 Lodging Rooms.” However, sometimes more than one hotel is used during VIP trips. For instance, when the president travelled to South Africa for Nelson Mandela’s funeral, five different hotels were used.
Contracts for lodging have not yet been posted for the president’s other stops during his Europe trip, which included the Netherlands and Rome, Italy.
Also:
Via Daily Mail:
‘Are you kidding me?’ asked a senior aide to one Republican member of the House Appropriations Committee. ‘The president is going to have to get used to flying commercial some day. I bet taxpayers wish that cay came sooner.’
‘Wow, that seems disgusting, doesn’t it?’ said a GOP committee staffer elsewhere on Capitol Hill. ‘I know we need to protect the president, but at some point you have to assume we spent a fraction as much to shuttle JFK around and protect him.’
‘And why do nearly 1,000 people have to go on the trip? Are there really that many Secret Service agents and clipboard-holders? This is a testament to why government needs to shrink down and start treating taxpayers with respect.
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"I got an idea. How about we tell this fraud SOB that we need to stop all this worthless travel cost and from now on he has to sleep on Air Farce One and it will save us a ton on hotel and secret
