Now that the Florida vacation is out of the way, Big Moo and the little calves are off to China for a vacation, it doesn't mean the white house vacation planning staff gets a break. It's time to plan for another vacation.
Planning begins for another Obama vacation | The Martha's Vineyard Times
Like the annual return of pinkletinks and crocuses, inns and hotels around the Island are getting familiar calls this week from White House officials planning a vacation on Marthas Vineyard for President Obama and his family.
How many have Trump taken so far? And this is all about how much Obama was costing us right? Well the Trump family is costing us way more and you don't care?
Also this
Taxpayers have paid for Tom Price, the head of the Health and Human Services Department,
to fly on private planes at least 24 times, a decision the department defended by saying Price wanted to connect with ordinary Americans.
The cost of the trips exceeded $300,000, Politico reported. Charmaine Yoest, an HHS spokeswoman, defended the cost in a statement, saying Price was justified in taking the flights because he wanted to hear from many Americans.
“This is Secretary Price, getting outside of D.C., making sure he is connected with the real American people,” she said in a
statement to The Washington Post. “Wasting four hours in an airport and having the secretary cancel his event is not a good use of taxpayer money.”
But
Politico found that Price could have used a commercial plane for many of the trips on which he used a private jet. For example, HHS paid $17,760 for a chartered flight from Washington to Nashville, Tennessee, on June 6 when there were commercial flights available for just a few hundred dollars. Price also used a private plane to fly to the swanky Aspen Ideas Festival in June, a trip Politico estimated to have cost more than $7,000.
