EPA chief's trip to Italy cost taxpayers $120,000

[TexasTowelie]

March 21 (UPI) -- A trip to Italy last year for Environmental Protective Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt cost U.S. taxpayers $120,000, a watchdog said Wednesday.

Costs for Pruitt's security detail added more than $30,000 to the bill than previously revealed, according to the Environmental Integrity Project, a non-partisan and non-profit watchdog group.

The trip, taken last June, is also under review by the agency's inspector general.

Previously released travel documents showed the EPA spent close to $90,000 to send Pruitt and his staff to Italy for one day for the G7 environmental summit. Included in that amount was a $36,000 military flight so Pruitt could join President Donald Trump at a Cincinnati event, and then make it to New York in time for his flight to Rome.

Read more: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2018/03/21/Watchdog-EPA-chiefs-trip-to-Italy-cost-taxpayers-120000/5061521650951/

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Mine only cost about $4500 for 2 weeks.

[TexasTowelie]

2. Yes,

but I don't believe that wearing Depends in case of GI issues provides the same level of "security detail" as what the EPA chief received.

[malaise]

3. This kakistocracy is full of

thieves and corrupt scumbags.