Biden Loves to Fly, Spends $1 Million on Weekend Trips?

Last June, President Obama appointed Vice President Joe Biden to root out
wasteful government spending. But behind the scenes, it’s a different
matter.

Every Friday, Biden takes a helicopter designated as Marine Two
from the vice president’s residence to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland and then
hops on Air Force Two to fly back to his home in Delaware. At the end of the
weekend, he returns on Air Force Two, usually a Boeing C-32.

During warm weather, Biden regularly returns to Andrews on the airplane on
Saturdays to play golf at the Air Force base with President Obama. After the
golf game, he flies back to Delaware and returns to Washington on the plane on
Sunday evening — all at taxpayer expense.

The cost of flying Air Force
Two is $22,000 an hour, so each half-hour trip to or from Delaware costs about
$10,000. Each golf game costs taxpayers $20,000. At that rate, the annual cost
to taxpayers of Biden’s weekend trips is well over $1 million.