It’s not just The One, but all his minions too.
Via Newsmax:
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and outgoing FBI Director Robert Mueller took out-of-town trips in fiscal year 2011 at costs totalling just over $2.5 million, according to disclosures released to Bloomberg News.
Holder’s trips totalled $1.45 million, while Mueller’s totalled another $1.25 million. Both officials, Bloomberg reports, are considered “required use” personnel who are compelled by executive order to use government aircraft for all travel because of “security and communications needs,” according to the Government Accountability Office.
The government covers the costs of official trips, while personal travel is to be reimbursed by the office holder. However, the reimbursement is to be at an equivalent to the cost of coach fare, which is much less, the GAO said.
Both Holder and Mueller came under fire earlier this year for their expensive travel costs, The Hill reports, when Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley criticized them for using official government jets to take personal trips on the taxpayer’s dime as sequestration was approaching.