Obama’s Wasteful Climate Conference Trip Cost Taxpayers $4,165,068.40
It takes a lot of taxpayer cash and jet exhaust to fly a president to a “climate change” meeting in Paris.
We have obtained records from the U.S. Secret Service [1] and the Department of the Air Force [2] detailing the costs of Obama’s trip to attend the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference [3]. Secret Service charges for Obama and his staff to attend the Conference cost taxpayers $1,324,171.60. Flight expenses cost $2,840,896.80, bringing the total expenditure for the conference to at least $4,165,068.40. To date, Obama’s known travel expenses total $83,795,502.33.
Barack Obama’s appointees didn’t volunteer this information. We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for these documents on January 6, 2016. Our request wasn’t answered, so we had to sue this past May (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security [4] (No. 1:16-cv-00863)). Only then did we get the documents.
Here are the Secret Service expenses for Obama’s ideological Paris junket:
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