Obama scheduled one “official” speech on the economy so taxpayers get stuck funding his two-day trip where he will attend six fundraisers.

Via Washington Examiner:

President Obama, grappling with two major international crises and a new federal court decision that threatens to dismantle Obamacare, hit the road for a three-day West Coast fundraising trip that will cost nearly $3 million just to fly Air Force One.

At $228,288 an hour, the base flight time of 12.5 hours from Washington, to Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and back to Andrews Air Force Base will cost taxpayers $2.85 million.

Expensive? That bill doesn’t include the cost of flying and housing staff and the Secret Service or the prepositioning of equipment like limos to get the president from his hotel to events.

The hourly cost of flying Air Force One has risen under Obama, in large part due to the increase in fuel prices. The Air Force recently told watchdog Judicial Watch that the price jumped to $228,288 from $179,750, an increase of 27 percent.