{"id":2266322,"date":"2024-06-12T18:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T22:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jet-setting-jill-biden-could-saddle-americans-with-345k-bill\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T18:16:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T22:16:21","slug":"jet-setting-jill-biden-could-saddle-americans-with-345k-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jet-setting-jill-biden-could-saddle-americans-with-345k-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Biden&#8217;s Travel Could Cost Americans $345k"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fjet-setting-jill-biden-could-saddle-americans-with-345k-bill%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=2266322&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--><p>Jill Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-issues-do-not-travel-guidance-to-80-of-countries-cites-covid-19\/\" title=\"US Issues \u2018Do Not Travel\u2019 Guidance To 80% Of Countries, Cites COVID-19\">recent travel<\/a> between Delaware and Paris, associated with Hunter Biden&#8217;s trial and President Joe \u2064Biden&#8217;s D-Day anniversary attendance in France, \u2062could cost U.S. \u200ctaxpayers around $345,000. The\u2064 Democratic National Committee will cover only a portion of these expenses. Jill \u2063Biden aimed\u200d to be\u200c present for \u200dboth her stepson&#8217;s trial in Wilmington, Delaware, and\u2064 the D-Day event in Normandy, \u2062leading to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-says-it-does-not-have-the-assets-to-prevent-taliban-from-reportedly-grounding-planes-trying-to-leave-afghanistan\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Says It Does Not Have The \u2018Assets\u2019 To Prevent Taliban From Reportedly Grounding Planes Trying To Leave Afghanistan\">multiple flights<\/a> between the\u2064 locations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>First lady <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/jill-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jill Biden\u2019s<\/a> recent jet-setting between Delaware and Paris could cost American taxpayers $345,000, with the Democratic National Committee only ponying up a small fraction of the total cost.<\/p>\n<p>The First Lady <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/06\/11\/us-news\/dnc-will-foot-the-bill-for-part-of-jill-bidens-pricey-back-and-forth-delaware-france-flights-taxpayers-on-the-hook-for-the-rest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made a show<\/a> of being on-hand for her stepson Hunter Biden\u2019s trial in Wilmington, Delaware \u2014 but because the trial overlapped with President Joe Biden\u2019s visit to Normandy, France, for the 80th anniversary of D-Day, she had to figure out a way to be in two places at once.<\/p>\n<p>The solution involved several flights between Joint Base Andrews and Wilmington, and then Wilmington and Paris \u2014 so that she could attend Hunter\u2019s trial, but also be on hand for official ceremonies and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jill-biden-will-represent-the-united-states-at-the-tokyo-olympics-take-diplomatic-meetings\/\" title=\"Jill Biden Will Represent The United States At The Tokyo Olympics, Take Diplomatic Meetings\">state visits<\/a> with French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte Macron.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, that meant a flight from Joint Base Andrews to Wilmington \u2014 and later that night, a government plane to Paris for the D-Day ceremonies. After a full day in Normandy, another government plane waited to return her to Wilmington for Friday\u2019s courtroom proceedings \u2014 after which she returned to Paris for an official state visit. She then returned home from France with the president aboard Air Force One on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn accordance with relevant regulations utilized across administrations, the government is reimbursed the value of a first-class fare for these flights to Wilmington and back to Paris,\u201d Jill Biden\u2019s office told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hunter-biden-trial-dnc-to-reimburse-government-for-first-lady-jill-biden-delaware-paris-flights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712932862202000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0plT8RRdMy9XUpIhocnjQS\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Security concerns prevent the first lady from flying commercial \u2014 and they always travel with a full Secret Service detail \u2014 but when flying alone, they often fly in something smaller than Air Force One, like a Boeing C-32. According to the Air Force, the reimbursable rate for the C-32 is $13,816 per hour \u2014 and Jill Biden racked up three consecutive eight-hour flights.<\/p>\n<p>By the Daily Mail\u2019s calculations, each leg of the first lady\u2019s trip could have cost upwards of $110,500 \u2014 and the total cost from start to finish was in the neighborhood of $345,000.<\/p>\n<p>And while the DNC has stated that it will reimburse the White House for a portion of the expenses, how much has not yet been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Lady Jill Biden&#8217;s recent travels between Delaware and Paris may cost taxpayers $345,000, while the Democratic National Committee covers just a fraction. She attended her stepson Hunter Biden&#8217;s trial in Wilmington, Delaware, which coincided with other commitments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2266323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/07\/Jill-Biden-2-scaled-e1657668013261.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/07\/Jill-Biden-2-scaled-e1657668013261.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266322","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2266323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}