Obama's Africa Trip Could Cost $100 Million
Posted on 06/14/2013 6:53:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama's trip to Africa later this month could be one of the most expensive of his tenure, costing the government as much as $100 million.
According to a confidential internal planning document obtained by The Washington Post, hundreds of Secret Service agents will be dispatched to secure facilities in Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania, which the first family will visit from June 26 to July 3.
A Navy aircraft carrier or amphibious ship, with fully staffed medical trauma center, will be stationed offshore in case of an emergency.
In addition, military cargo planes will airlift in 56 support vehicles, including 14 limousines and three trucks carrying bulletproof glass to cover the windows of the hotels where the Obamas will stay. And fighter jets will fly in shifts to provide around the clock coverage over the president's airspace.
The president and first lady Michelle Obama also had planned to take a Tanzanian safari during the trip, which would have required a special counterassault team to carry sniper rifles in the event of a threat from wild animals, the Post reported, citing the document.
But the safari was canceled in favor of a trip to Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela was held as a political prisoner, officials told the newspaper.
The Post noted that when it first asked White House officials about the safari last week, they said no final decision had been made, adding that the official said Thursday that the cancellation was not related to the newspaper's inquiries.
Former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush also traveled to Africa multiple times. A report from the Government Accountability Office, according to the Post, showed that Clinton's 1998 trip to six African nations cost the federal government at least $42.7 million.
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TOPICS:Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News;GovernmentKEYWORDS:africa; kingofthedeficit; obama; queenofthedeficitWhy is he even able to go on this trip with what we've learned recently? Orwell has officially arrived.
Americas economy is going to hell in a hand basket and this clown wants to take a 100 million dollar vacation ... that's what it amounts to, a vacation. Nothing in this trip would benefit the US or its economy in any way.
Wish it was a one-way trip.
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