United States President Barack Obama and his family have spent the past few weeks golfing, eating and playing games in Hawaii on their yearly holiday trip.
A report published yesterday puts the price tag of their travel over the last eight years at $96 million.
The cost of Air Force One and other government planes as well as helicopters, cargo planes, armored cars, Secret Service protection and advance, communications and medical staff has led Judicial Watch to push for less personal travel.
“The Secret Service and the Air Force are being abused by unnecessary travel,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said. “Unnecessary presidential travel for fundraising and luxury vacations on the taxpayers’ dime would be a good target for reform for the incoming Trump administration.”
Agents stayed at the Hawaii Prince Hotel Waikiki and Golf Club, the Moana Surfrider on Waikiki Beach and the Ala Moana Hotel last year. The bill for their rooms was $1,000,458.63, Judicial Watch discovered.
Hotels and lodging, car rental costs for the Secret Service and airfare and rail services for the first family’s protective detail pushed the cost up to $4.8 million.
