Did the Treasury Secretary and his wife use a taxpayer jet to get to an eclipse watch party?
By Jen Hayden at Daily Kos
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/23/1692686/-Did-the-Treasury-Secretary-and-his-wife-use-a-taxpayer-jet-to-get-to-an-eclipse-watch-party
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Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) are now raising questions about what warranted the use of this jet and whether the true destination for Mnuchin and Linton was an eclipse watch party, which happened to be in a premier location—smack dab in the path of totality. Using Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, CREW is seeking more details about the trip:
On August 21, 2017, Secretary Mnuchin and his wife Louise Linton travelled to Lexington, Kentucky, purportedly for the Secretary to present remarks along with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell at a luncheon sponsored by the Louisville chamber of commerce, Greater Louisville Inc. Afterward, Secretary Mnuchin and his wife “headed to Fort Know…to tour the bullion reserve at the Army post and view the eclipse.”
The requested records would shed light on the justification for Secretary Mnuchin’s use of a government plane, rather than a commercial flight, for a trip that seems to have been planned around the solar eclipse and to enable the Secretary to secure a viewpoint in the path of the eclipse’s totality. At a time of expected deep cuts to the federal budget, the taxpayers have a significant interest in learning the extent to which Secretary Mnuchin has used government planes for travel in lieu of commercial planes, and the justification for that use.
It is a valid question. Why would U.S. taxpayers need to fund a very expensive roundtrip for the treasury secretary and his wife to a local chamber of commerce luncheon? It makes zero sense.
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Arrogant snots.
I guess us bougie people, us little people, don't really matter.
Gosh, I feel an urge to genuflect...
in front of the door to the mint at Fort Knox.
