{"id":1799152,"date":"2023-01-08T11:19:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T16:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1799152"},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T16:20:08","slug":"buttigieg-attempts-to-explain-regular-private-government-jet-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/buttigieg-attempts-to-explain-regular-private-government-jet-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Buttigieg Attempts To Explain Regular Private Government Jet Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbuttigieg-attempts-to-explain-regular-private-government-jet-use%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1799152&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/94f6ba83-7193-4390-bc00-4681cd7b6037-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Embattled Transportation Secretary Pete ButtigiegHe has been criticized for being a terrible employee and for frequent use of private jets. This was something he tried to defend during a appearance on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>It It didn&#8217;t go as planned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve been a big advocate for the environment\u2014the administration\u2019s climate change policy. What do you say to people who ask, is it environmentally responsible to fly on private government jets when commercial options are available?\u201d Host Bret Baier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2023\/01\/05\/buttigieg-my-private-flights-save-taxpayers-money-we-do-consider-the-environment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"3\">\u201cWell, when we\u2019re making a decision about what kind of aircraft to use, we weigh a lot of things. That\u2019s one of the things we consider. So is saving taxpayers money. Now, I fly the majority of the time in economy class on an airliner, just like everybody else,\u201d Buttigieg claimed. \u201cBut there are cases where we use an FAA jet, a jet that\u2019s assigned to my department. I\u2019ll give you an example. I went to Wisconsin recently. This was last year, I think. [\u2026] We saved taxpayers $2,000\u00a0by using the FAA jet instead of buying those airline tickets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"3\">After Baier Several other private jet flights were also mentioned Buttigieg The secretary claimed that the secretary had taken. \u201ctaxpayers are usually saving money when we do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"3\">The Federal agencies are being charged by the FAA, according to reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/pete-buttigieg-flies-taxpayer-funded-private-jets-flight-data-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$5,000 <strong>per hour<\/strong> for the use of a private jet<\/a>.\u00a0According A recent analysis of his flight records by The <em>New York Post,<\/em> Buttigieg Since taking office, has used private planes 18 times. His predecessor, Elaine Chao, was criticized for using private planes seven times in 2017.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"3\">Baier Not to be confused with HHS, former HHS employees Secretary Tom Price I was forced to resign Donald Trump\u2019s cabinet for his use of private jets. Of Of course, it depends on ButtigiegHowever, this was different because, allegedly when Price did it, it wasn\u2019t saving taxpayers money, but when he does it, it is. For Buttigieg\u2019s explanation to be true, we\u2019d have to believe that the FAA offers a ridiculously huge discount for anyone working in a Democrat administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embattled Transportation Secretary Pete ButtigiegHe has been criticized for being a terrible employee and for frequent use of private jets. This was something he tried to defend during a appearance on Fox News. It It didn&#8217;t go as planned. \u201cYou\u2019ve been a big advocate for the environment\u2014the administration\u2019s climate change policy. What do you say &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1618091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6218,5458,4943,5197,5045,11991,4070,10281,3819],"class_list":["post-1799152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-attempts","tag-bongino","tag-buttigieg","tag-explain","tag-government","tag-jet","tag-private","tag-regular","tag-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1618091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}