Obama’s Flight to Africa Cost – By Itself – Almost $6 Million!
President Obama’s five-day trip to Africa cost taxpayers more than $5 million in flight time alone for Air Force One, according to a study released Tuesday.
The National Taxpayers Union said Mr. Obama is spending about 29 hours of flight time on the trip that began Thursday, taking him to Kenya and Ethiopia. Operating Air Force One costs $206,337 per flight hour, for a total of $5,983,773.
The total cost of the trip will easily reach into tens of millions of dollars. In the summer of 2013, Mr. Obama took his family on a weeklong trip to sub-Saharan Africa that was estimated to cost taxpayers between $60 million and $100 million.
On that earlier trip, the Secret Service’s hotel costs alone totaled $953,788, or about $136,255 per day.
The president is returning to Washington early Wednesday, after a refueling stop in Germany. (Read more from “Obama’s Flight to Africa Tops $5 Million: Study” HERE)
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