EXCLUSIVEJill Biden's 3,600-mile round trip from France to Delaware to spend two days at Hunter's trial could cost up to $345,000... and taxpayers could be on the hook for a huge bill
It costs $13,816 per hour to operate the first lady's government plane
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By Emily Goodin, Senior U.S. Political Reporter In Paris
Published: 10:54 EDT, 10 June 2024 | Updated: 13:53 EDT, 10 June 2024
Taxpayers will pick up the majority of cost for Jill Biden's whirlwind flights between Wilmington, Delaware, and France so she could be at son Hunter's side during his federal gun trial although the Democratic Party will chip in some funds.
The first lady racked up $345,400 in flight costs, the National Taxpayers Union Foundation estimated, as she boomeranged between the United States and France last week, traveling separately from husband Joe Biden so she could support her family at home while also representing the United States abroad.
Her political party will repay the government for what it would cost for her to fly commercially with taxpayers footing the rest of the bill.
'In accordance with relevant regulations utilized across administrations, the government is reimbursed the value of a first-class fare for these flights to Wilmington and back to Paris,' Jill Biden's office told DailyMail.com in a statement.
The Democratic National Committee, which is funded by donors, will be the entity providing the reimbursement, a White House official told DailyMail.com.
The East Wing did not provide the dollar amount that was being reimbursed. It also didn't say who paid for the aides who travel with the first lady.
But a first-class one-way trip from Philadelphia to Paris is $6,655, per a search on google flights.
Jill Biden spent 24 hours on an airplane in the span of three days so she could switch between being at the side of her son and her husband, clocking in four days at the Delaware courthouse and three days in France. She was back at the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Wilmington on Monday.
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