Obama's $2.5M Hotel and 'Vehicle Rental' Tab on Last Mexico Trip

Weekly Standard ^ | 5/1/13 | Jeryl Bier

[Nachum]

As the White House first announced in March, Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Mexico and Costa Rica later this week. The trip is billed as "an important opportunity to reinforce the deep cultural, familial, and economic ties that so many Americans share with Mexico and Central America." And at yesterday’s White House press conference, the president stated that he is "very much looking forward to taking the trip down to Mexico" this week.

But the trip won’t exactly be cheap for taxpayers, assuming the costs mirror those incurred by the American taxpayers for President Obama's last trip to Mexico, for the G-20 summit in June 2012. According to recently discovered documents relating to the costs of that trip, taxpayers paid nearly $2.5 million for hotel and “vehicle rental.”

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[stephenjohnbanker]

Obama will also bring 2.5 million in American food stamps to pass out to future “undocumented Democrats.

[Kenny Bunk]

Let’s find out how he’s handling Reggie on this trip.

[freeangel]

“Costa Rica later this week”

Familial ties-—seriously? Is there NOTHING this president WON”T lie about?

[Fido969]

The pot bill alone for that party was $400,000.

[LucyT]

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

We’re worried about nothing with this. I’m sure he can dwarf the amount of the last visit with the next one. That’s the way the left wants us to take it.

[MestaMachine]

You’d think as much attention as we give him he’d donate to the Freepathon. Greedy bastard.

[bgill]

familial, and economic ties that so many Americans share with Mexico and Central America

Money sent back to Mexico by illegals is second only to oil as Mexico's income.

[GOPJ]

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[JoeProBono]

[azishot]

The trip is billed as "an important opportunity to reinforce the deep cultural, familial, and economic ties that so many Americans share with Mexico and Central America."

What, he couldn't just send a Hallmark card?