A Republican senator has introduced legislation meant to stop Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and other top DOT officials from flying on government-owned private planes with taxpayers footing the bill.
The bill by Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri was sent to the Democrat-run Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, where it will likely languish.“Secretary Buttigieg seems averse to traveling on the very commercial airlines that his Department oversees,” Mr. Schmitt said. “It’s far past time that Secretary Buttigieg and senior officials travel commercially instead of wasting taxpayer dollars on private jet flights.”Mr.
Former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao used the same planes during the Trump administration, racking up $94,000 in flight costs. Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price was forced to resign from the Trump administration for $1.2 million in taxpayer-funded private flights. Each flight on a DOT-owned aircraft by Mr. Buttigieg or his executive staff would require a justification and itemization of each trip, which would include proof that the private flight was cheaper than a commercial flight.Mr. Schmitt’s bill would also make the DOT change how it calculates the cost of flights to get rid of a loophole that the agency has used to “make traveling appear cheaper.”
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