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MyNameIsKhan

(2,205 posts)
Wed Sep 13, 2017, 07:17 PM Sep 2017

Munchin is millionaire and still requested Govt Plane for his HONEYMOON

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/treasury-secretary-mnuchin-requested-government-jet-european-honeymoon/story?id=49777076

Secretary Steven Mnuchin requested use of a government jet to take him and his wife on their honeymoon in Scotland, France and Italy earlier this summer, sparking an “inquiry” by The Treasury Department's Office of Inspector General, sources tell ABC News.

Officials familiar with the matter say the highly unusual ask for a U.S. Air Force jet, which according to an Air Force spokesman could cost roughly $25,000 per hour to operate, was put in writing by the secretary's office but eventually deemed unnecessary after further consideration of by Treasury Department officials.

Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said in an interview with ABC News that Mnuchin's request for a government jet on his honeymoon defies common sense.

"You don't need a giant rulebook of government requirements to just say yourself, 'This is common sense, it's wrong,'" Wyden said. "That's just slap your forehead stuff."

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Munchin is millionaire and still requested Govt Plane for his HONEYMOON (Original Post) MyNameIsKhan Sep 2017 OP
love is not blind ........... she can see ALL of his money Angry Dragon Sep 2017 #1
She grew up in a castle. elehhhhna Sep 2017 #7
not nice to call him ugly ......... he is beautifully challenged Angry Dragon Sep 2017 #9
Really ugly inside and out. democratisphere Sep 2017 #10
I will agree with the inside ugly Angry Dragon Sep 2017 #13
Back to the old "There's no law against it" dodge gratuitous Sep 2017 #2
I guess he spent all his money buying trophy ... If I had that kind of money, I would have bought MyNameIsKhan Sep 2017 #5
P R I V I L E G E Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #3
Hey! You don't get to be a millionaire by paying your own money for chartered jets! tanyev Sep 2017 #4
Yes You are absolutely right, that is why we middle class are left behind... MyNameIsKhan Sep 2017 #6
Grifters gonna grift Major Nikon Sep 2017 #8
He wanted power of flying on AF jet rather than Justice Sep 2017 #11
He can afford private plane... MyNameIsKhan Sep 2017 #12

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. Back to the old "There's no law against it" dodge
Wed Sep 13, 2017, 07:21 PM
Sep 2017

Mnuchin will pay the price of a coach ticket for himself and the latest wife, and the taxpayers can eat the rest of it. What good is being the Treasury Secretary if you can't make wife #3 feel as special as I'm sure wives #1 and #2 felt?

MyNameIsKhan

(2,205 posts)
5. I guess he spent all his money buying trophy ... If I had that kind of money, I would have bought
Wed Sep 13, 2017, 07:25 PM
Sep 2017

my own first class tickets or heck chartered my own plane... rather than putting burden on tax payers and this is our Treasury Sec, he is supposed be be in charge of money... Really ... Really sucks now

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