{"id":1862531,"date":"2023-02-27T16:50:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T21:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1862531"},"modified":"2023-02-27T16:52:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T21:52:25","slug":"dot-inspector-general-investigating-pete-buttigiegs-use-of-government-jets-buttigieg-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dot-inspector-general-investigating-pete-buttigiegs-use-of-government-jets-buttigieg-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"DOT Inspector General Investigating Pete Buttigieg\u2019s Use Of Government Jets; Buttigieg Responds"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fdot-inspector-general-investigating-pete-buttigiegs-use-of-government-jets-buttigieg-responds%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=1862531&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<p>Monday&#8217;s announcement by the Department of Transportation&#8217;s Inspector General was that it is investigating Secretary Pete Buttigieg\u2019s use of Federal Aviation Administration aircrafts to conduct official trips.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Washington Post, one of 18 private FAA flights Buttigieg took was more expensive than flying commercial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Glad this will be reviewed independently so misleading narratives can be put to rest,&#8221; Buttigieg claimed. &#8220;Bottom line: I mostly fly on commercial flights, in economy class. And when I do use our agency&#8217;s aircraft, it&#8217;s usually a situation where doing so saves taxpayer money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a breaking story. Refresh the page to see updates.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Transportation\u2019s inspector general said Monday that it is auditing Secretary Pete Buttigieg\u2019s use of Federal Aviation Administration planes for conducting official trips. The Washington Post, citing Buttigieg\u2019s office, reported that of the 18 flights that Buttigieg has taken on private FAA planes, only one was more expensive than flying commercial. \u201cGlad this &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1862534,"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":[541],"tags":[4943,5245,15193,5045,10738,4055,8069,8633,4499],"class_list":["post-1862531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-buttigieg","tag-buttigiegs","tag-dot","tag-government","tag-inspector","tag-investigating","tag-jets","tag-pete","tag-responds"],"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\/1862531","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1862531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1862534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1862531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1862531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1862531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}