Obama eating ice cream with her daughter Malia Kailua, Hawaii on vacation in 2015. Photo: AP
Judicial Watch conservative groups have access to some of the US Secret Service documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and is known to the agency spent $ 1.2 million for the president's trip. Plus the data that the team gathered on previous trips Obama's vacation in Hawaii to spend 12/2015 totaling more than $ 4.8 million.
According to Judicial Watch's calculations, the total cost for the Obama family vacation for 8 years in the White House is $ 85 million, RT reported.
Although the presidential family vacation for 17 days, the Secret Service employees to resort to locations from the previous, causing increased living expenses. They also have to spend money to hire more than 100 cars to serve the protection of the president during this period, besides the cost of air and rail.
Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch's representative, criticized that the Obamas were to spend an amount of taxpayers' money and manpower are not needed, and suggest that this should be reformed under the new administration of Mr. Donald Trump.
Judicial Watch was founded in 1994 and has filed more than 18 lawsuits the US administration. This group's allegations about a foreign trip of Obama has faced criticism.
In 2011, Judicial Watch accused First Lady Michelle tax fraud when people travel to Africa to promote education instead. In fact, Obama has to pay the expenses for the trip home. Thank you for leaving valuable comments
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