American taxpayers more than a Million Dollars. Earlier white house tried to downplay its role. To be clear, white house doesnt have role on the front end of approving private Charter Flights. Thats agencies and something were looking into from this point forward and asked a halt to be put particularly at ahs on any Charter Flights moving forward. White house may not approve but played a role in travel costs overall. Approved the use of Military Aircraft for prices trips to africa, europe and asia to tune of half a Million Dollars. Adding to the cost. Price reimbursing government about 52,000. Inspector general is investigating whole mess but in case of private jets, anyone can figure out how outrageous the
travel costs were. 300 to fly commercial from washington to nashville. He took a private plane at more than 17,000. At least 20 trips. Including a flight from washington to philadelphia, can drive in 2 1 2 hours or train for 72. This is just the spending that price railed against un
right. need at least 100 helicopters there, less than 50 now. 15 ships, we ve got less than 10. get moving to save lives. could have deployed airfield opening from the air force. they have the capacity. let me didn t do that. lot of tools in the box they didn t use. sorry. that s all right. play something the white house said today, there was bureaucratic and technical language in there. wasn t sure. bottom line saying general wasn t needed eight days ago. i don t understand the logic on that. play what white house said and then you can respond to it. why has it taken eight days to get a three star general on the ground to start organizing this? we know the island situation, but why eight days? because it didn t require a three star general eight days ago. we had one in charge of this out