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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMunchin 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=49777076Secretary 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
I guess he spent all his money buying trophy ... If I had that kind of money, I would have bought
MyNameIsKhan
Sep 2017
#5
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
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. love is not blind ........... she can see ALL of his money
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)7. She grew up in a castle.
And needs a rich ugly husband to keep up.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)9. not nice to call him ugly ......... he is beautifully challenged
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)10. Really ugly inside and out.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)13. I will agree with the inside ugly
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)2. Back to the old "There's no law against it" dodge
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
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
Eliot Rosewater
(31,151 posts)3. P R I V I L E G E
tanyev
(42,677 posts)4. Hey! You don't get to be a millionaire by paying your own money for chartered jets!
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)6. Yes You are absolutely right, that is why we middle class are left behind...
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)8. Grifters gonna grift
Justice
(7,188 posts)11. He wanted power of flying on AF jet rather than
Commercial.
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)12. He can afford private plane...