Judicial Watch:
Secret Service Lodging Cost Over $1 Million Alone
(Washington DC)—Judicial Watch announced today that it obtained records from the U.S. Secret Service revealing that its travel expenses for the First Family’s 2015 Hawaiian vacation cost taxpayers $1.2 million, which bring the total cost of the vacation trip to at least $4.8 million. This was the Obamas’ eighth Hawaiian family vacation. The trip has become an annual event for the Obamas. To date, Obama’s and his family’s travel expenses total at least $85,029,819.
The records obtained by Judicial Watch for Obama’s Secret Service travel to Hawaii reveal the following expenses totaling $1,234,316.67:
- Hotel and lodging costs totaled $1,000,458.63
- The Secret Service spent $165,893.88 on car rentals.
- Air and rail expenses totaled $67,964.16.
Although the vacation officially lasted from December 18, 2015, to January 3, 2016, the Secret Service rented several Kailua homes for 19 nights, starting from December 16. The total for the rentals, located near the Marine Corps base at Kaneohe Bay was $245,993.12. According to bills obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the Secret Service also paid for rooms at the Hawaii Prince Hotel Waikiki and Golf Club. The Secret Service also reserved rooms at the Moana Surfrider resort on Waikiki Beach, and the Ala Moana Hotel, which cost a total of $40,249.48 and $671,895.99, respectively.
The Secret Service rented cars from Avis, Alamo, and Hertz – 103 cars for the two-week vacation, totaling $165,893.88 in taxpayer money. There’s More
Obama, always remember this: Your mama was a whore.
@JZ..HA! That’s some cold hard truth right there!
The people screaming about the cost of Melania and their boy living in NYC are the same ones willfully ignoring the cost of the 0bamas’ many trips.
All that taxpayer money spent, and they STILL couldn’t buy any class.
The sleazy grifters infesting the White House will be gone soon. Thank God!
Granny says that may sound like an awful lot of money but for us true Americans it was worth every penny to get those flatlanders out of town before they did even more damage!
This is a disgrace! He lives like a king and acts like one too with his executive orders. The fact that he has been doing this sort of thing for eight years with hardly a peep from the MSM is another piece of evidence that the MSM is biased. I can’t imagine the headlines if a republican president spent this much money on him self. When he took air force one to New York City so he could take Michael out for dinner the press reported how wonderful this was. No mention was made that it was the most expensive date in American history. I can’t wait for him to be gone. Would some one please cut his tongue out so we never have to hear him whine again.
Think about all those starving American children that threw away Mooch’s school lunches that could have been fed with that amount of dough.
Where were the great white sharks? Any sharks? Hell even sharks are fussy when eating. Not all garbage can be swallowed, even by known garbage feeders.
The Obama’s have been like trailer trash that won the lottery for eight years.
This cabal is not worth a bus ticket to Peoria!
“Obama, always remember this: Your mama was a whore.”
And you are a bastard. Your mama the whore was not married to whoever your sperm donor was.
And his father was a degenerate African of questionable parentage!
AND THEY’RE HEADED BACK TO HAWAII THIS YEAR FOR CHRISTMAS, THIS TIME THE TAG WILL BE HIGHER!!
THEN, AFTER LEAVING THE OFFICE, OBAMA IS GOING TO TAKE A “MUCH NEEDED, EXTENDED VACATION”!!!
I LOVE HOW TRUMP STATED ON 60 MINUTES THAT THE TRUMPS ARE NOT BIG ON VACATIONS!!
IF I HAD PLAYED AS MANY ROUNDS OF GOLF DURING THE LAST 8 YEARS, AND TAKEN AS MANY VACATIONS, I WOULD HAVE JOINED THE 95 MILLION WHO ARE OUT OF WORK!!
I wish some well-heeled conservative would make the next 40 days of Obama a little spin through hell for him. Full page ads, every day in a few of the big papers outlining how much Obama spent on himself, his family and his ratpack following during his Presidency. There’s the golf, the vacations (separate ones in a few cases), the White House soirees, the trip overseas to try to get the Olympics for Chicago (to make Jarret the slumlord rich)as well as the one to collect the undeserved Noble Prize, etc etc etc. Each day people would begin to look forward to the latest installment of Mr. Sleaze Goes to Washington. I suspect it wouldn’t take too long before people of all stripes would begin to wonder just what the hell he accomplished besides growing fat and happy.
why do these non-swimmers always go to hawaii
That figure is not any where near the actual cost. That ‘Air and Rail’ cost of $68,000? Not anywhere close to the cost of ONE hour. What you see is only what they got away with reporting. Call Delta, ask what they’d charge for a chartered 747 ride from DC to Hawaii and back, including two dead heading trips.
Che-obama costs us less to be on vacation than when he’s in Washington. Barry, go to Hawaii. Stay in Hawaii. Please don’t come back.
Why is this allowed by us?
Why is the US President, a citizen, allowed to take such advantage? What happened to budgets, and travel for business purposes, etc.
Since when have we allowed a US President SO MUCH LATITUDE, without MASSIVE political and social blowback. In better days, he would have been challenged to a pistol duel (!!)