May
01

Steve Mnuchin Spent $1 Million Of Taxpayer Money To Avoid Flying Commercial, Water Remains Wet

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Thanks to some hard work from the folks over at the [previously] non-partisan Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the American public is now aware that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has spent $1 million of taxpayer money by refusing to fly commercial.

Based on what CREW has found by FOIA’ing and then suing to obtain Mnuchin’s travel records, it seems that Mnooks has pulled every possible bureaucratic lever available to him to avoid getting on anything other than a private government plane while traveling for business or pleasure in his 15 months running Treasury.  Mnuchin’s travel has eviscerated modern norms of travel expenses for any federal employee who is not the president and reflects an almost pathological refusal to not get exactly what he wants…

Steve Mnuchin Spent $1 Million Of Taxpayer Money To Avoid Flying Commercial, Water Remains Wet

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