Article from Town Hall by Katie Pavlich.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her fellow Democrats are pretty enraged President Trump cancelled their taxpayer funded trip overseas — in the middle of a government shutdown — at the last minute on Thursday. In fact, they were already sitting on the bus ready to go to the airport.
Democrat House members getting off the bus that was to take them on an overseas trip while the government was shut down. Adam Schiff looks unhappy he couldn’t go pic.twitter.com/mywvLNtsId #maga #democratShutdown
— Matt Batzel (@MattBatzel) January 17, 2019
But it turns out these taxpayer funded Congressional Delegation [CODEL] trips lead by Pelosi have been pretty fancy in the past. She’s also a habitual abuser of taxpayer funding and the military for personal use.
Back in 2008, Judicial Watch exposed the Speaker for lavish spending on booze and free trips for spouses on military planes.
DOD advised Pelosi military aircraft request could not be met and offered to help secure commercial travel. Pelosi staffer responds: “We appreciate the efforts to help the codel [sic] fly commercially but you know the problem that creates with spouses…" https://t.co/ukl1uo4jDc
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) January 18, 2019
.@JudicialWatch exposed this all nine years ago….doing the work of media back then, too.
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) January 18, 2019
Purchases for one Pelosi-led CODEL on May 15-20, 2008 included: Johnny Walker Red scotch, Grey Goose vodka, E&J brandy, Bailey’s Irish Crème, Maker’s Mark whiskey, Courvoisier cognac, Bacardi Light rum, Jim Beam whiskey, Beefeater gin, Dewar’s scotch, Bombay Sapphire gin…
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) January 18, 2019
.@SpeakerPelosi used the Air Force aircraft for a total of 85 trips, covering 206,264 miles, from March 2, 2009 through June 7, 2010. Pelosi, her guests and Air Force personnel logged a total of 428.6 hours on these flights.
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) January 18, 2019
Numerous trips were made by Speaker Pelosi between San Francisco and Andrews Air Force Base. Several of these trips included members of Speaker Pelosi’s family…https://t.co/7OagzzyNRU
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) January 18, 2019
Not much has changed.
Read the entire article at Town Hall.
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No member of Congress or their families should be using a military aircraft or other vehicle for any reason. Pelosi has no legitimate business in a war zone!! She is wasting taxpayer money by the billions and she needs to pay out of pocket for her travel. I work too hard and earn too little for her and others to be wasting it! I pray she leaves Congress sooner than later!
Pissloser doesn’t care.
She’s a spoiled multi millionaire, representing. A bankrupt State she helped destroy & using Federal money provided by We the People..
No way should TAX payer money be use for any of them and their family or others their should pay their own way for trips and rooms and security too
It’s take your family to work week
Pelosi is being PAID BIG by Mexican Drug Cartells to keep the border open. She is aloof of the dangers experienced by citizens being shot, robbed, kidnapped and enslaved. The trip to “wherever” was just a ruse to say that President Trump “waited ’till I was out of town to sneak this move past the wonderful, honorable, moral House. Without my leadership, they are LOST”. You REALIZE that if there is a successful attack on the President and Vice President that SHE would be installed to be the president? BRRRR! Scary! God Bless President Trump! God Save The U.S.A.!!!
Nancy, If you want to fly at tax payers expense , fly coach and pay your own bar bill. No family should accompany you. Just like military personell does.
Was she planning another multimillion dollar taxpayer funded trip with fullsecret service to golf at Mar A Lago again?
has She donated her salary, like Trump, no she has not….she is denying anything Trump wants. She’s also a nut. She can’t talk a whole sentence. The *itch is senile. Don’t any of you wonder why the husbands and wives are worth so much…check your wallets
Easy, easy. Your emotions are really getting the better of you. Maybe it’s hormonal?
You jealous Bill?
Oh, wait. That’s not her.
I’ve said all I need to say….it won’t sink in mindless heads. Good luck
Pelosi, other democrats including the past president and his family have been abusing for their entire time in office. Pelosi thought military aircraft were her private taxi service. The Obama brats used to for their Mexican vacations along with their friends and the moose took hundreds on her European shopping trips as well as taking a separate plane when she and Barry went to Hawaii on vacation. CODOLs by members should all be grounded.
Nancy, just join Ruth – in a casket.
Nancy and crew should ride bicycles to their next CODEL to help pedal the new green deal Obnoxia Cortez proposes.
Bill is blind….or just plain stupid.
The politicians have NO legitimate reason to visit ANY war zone. This is just another tax payer funded vacation for them. This nonsense must be stopped!