Just days before Trump was inaugurated in 2017, the goofy looking Ernest Moniz, with the goofy hair billed tax payers over $75,000 for a trip to Mexico. Funny how you don’t hear the media utter a word about Moniz waste of tax payer money, yet they totally lose their shit over Scott Pruitt.
| Obama Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz cost Taxpayers $75,461 for flight to Mexico |
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Former secretary of energy Ernest Moniz billed taxpayers over $75,000 for a government flight to Mexico City, just weeks before he left office.
The costs of the trip were revealed in a special report released by the department’s inspector general Friday, investigating the use of government charter flights in both the Trump and Obama administrations.
Moniz traveled to Mexico City on Jan. 7, 2017, less than two weeks before President Trump was inaugurated. The purpose of the trip was to sign a “non-binding” document on electricity grids.
Tasked with investigating the use of government aircraft by Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, the inspector general identified nine trips by Obama and Trump officials between October 2015 and December 2017, costing $178,000.
Nearly half of those costs came from Moniz’s single trip to Mexico.
“We identified six trips from January 2017 through December 2017 that were sponsored by the Department of Energy where the Secretary or other non-career Department Federal officials utilized Government or privately chartered aircraft,” the inspector general said. “One of these trips was taken by Secretary Moniz in January 2017 under the previous administration to participate in the signing of the United States-Mexico Bilateral Reliability Principles in Mexico City, Mexico and to attend the opening ceremony of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, New Mexico.”
The flights to Mexico City and Carlsbad cost $75,461. The cost for Moniz and 10 other energy officials was $3,018 per traveler per leg.