The kicker: This was during the time he was shutting down White House tours and monuments blaming it on the sequester.
Via Daily Caller:
The Obamas’ 2013 trip to Africa cost taxpayers over $2,000,000 in lodging, entertainment, and security expenses alone, government watchdog Judicial Watch announced Thursday — a part of the total cost of approximately $100,000,000 taxpayers spent on the president’s vacation, as estimated by The Washington Post.
Records obtained in response to a FOIA request filed last summer detail that nearly one million dollars were spent on hotel accommodations for the Secret Service–for one week. Preparations for a canceled Tanzania safari–yes, a safari they didn’t even go on–cost over ten thousand dollars. The brief summer 2013 trip also cost over eight million in flight expenses.
“Keep in mind that this outrageously lavish excursion came at the very same time that the president was shutting down White House tours and blaming it on the sequester,” noted Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. “As one congressional critic noted at the time, the White House could have 1,350 weeks of tours for the cost of the Obama family’s trip to Africa.”