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GOP senator: Trump should spend less time at Mar-a-Lago
The Hill ^ | 04/18/2017 | Max Greenwood

Posted on 04/18/2017 12:22:11 PM PDT by GIdget2004

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said on Tuesday that President Trump's frequent trips to his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida bother not only her, but other members of the Republican caucus.

"I do wish he would spend more time in Washington, D.C.," Ernst said during a town hall meeting. "That's what we have the White House for."

Since he took office, Trump has spent seven out of the last 13 weekends at his self-described "Southern White House" in Palm Beach. The visits have stirred controversy, in part because of the enormous costs associated with such frequent travel.

One estimate of the weekend trips by CNN placed the cost so far above $20 million, putting Trump on track to spend more on travel in his first year in office than former President Barack Obama spent in eight years.

Before becoming president, Trump frequently assailed Obama for his excessive travel and vacations, arguing that the then-president should stay in Washington to work rather than play golf on the weekends.

"I think that has been bothering not just me but some other members of our caucus," Ernst said of Trump's Mar-a-Lago trips.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: ernst; florida; golf; iowa; itsokbecausetrump; joniernst; leavedonaldalone; maralago; presidenttrrump; trump; trumpgolftrips
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To: goodnesswins

Yeah, a real dolt. And as I recall, her name was being floated for the VEEP slot.


41 posted on 04/18/2017 12:37:58 PM PDT by VietVet876
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To: GIdget2004

He isn’t taking a salary, and I bet he isn’t charging the government for the trips. The cost of the govt apparatus can’t be helped. They can piss off.


42 posted on 04/18/2017 12:38:16 PM PDT by ichabod1 (I call Obama "osama" because he damaged us far more than Osama bin Ladin ever did.)
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To: GIdget2004

Uh, Joni, it is HIS HOUSE. How dare you.


43 posted on 04/18/2017 12:40:15 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How about you lazy RINO’s do your job....


44 posted on 04/18/2017 12:40:42 PM PDT by Hogblog
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To: Rusty0604

The 10,000 mile round trip Christmas vacations HAD to have cost more ,especially when they didn’t travel as a couple.

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45 posted on 04/18/2017 12:43:34 PM PDT by Mears
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To: GIdget2004

IOW, when the cats that far away we mice can’t hear the bell on the cat’s collar.


46 posted on 04/18/2017 12:43:37 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

[I can remember when Nixon would go to his “Western White House” in San Clemente, California. He would do this several times per year. Nobody griped about it.]

How many R’s complained about GWB’s “Western White House”??


47 posted on 04/18/2017 12:43:51 PM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012 ("Be quiet... you are #fakenews!")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Congress only works Tues, Wed, & Thursday....
What the heck does Senator Joni want?


48 posted on 04/18/2017 12:44:12 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: GIdget2004

They want him to stay in the spaces that are bugged so they know what he is up to.


49 posted on 04/18/2017 12:44:14 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: GIdget2004

wow. there are some weird repsonses in this thread.

look, it’s our first mega-millionaire as president. he shouldn’t have to suddenly start living like a mere member of the middle upper class because he has agreed to lead the free world.

(but no, the freaking white house isn’t over-crowded or antiquated, he won’t somehow make back his travel costs, there’s nothing wrong with camp david, earnst isn’t a “dumb broad”, and the white house is absolutely secure)

weird, weird, weird.


50 posted on 04/18/2017 12:44:16 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Trump goes to Mar A Largo for a very good reason: the WH is under renovation. While it has been said he can still work there, it is going to be a year or more before they are done. This was discussed during and after the election. The former pos President held off on doing renovations until he left office. This meant Trump would have to suffer through them.

This is a low-life senator who only knows what is going on in his world and dictates to us what to do in our world. He should try reading Trump sometime rather than dismiss him because he never liked what Trump stood for.


51 posted on 04/18/2017 12:44:40 PM PDT by zaxtres
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To: GIdget2004

These people have no spine. Always caving to RAT think.

No wonder they get nothing done.

I wish these Congress creeps would actually WORK instead of vacationing and get some of what we voted for done.

How about all of Congress save taxpayer money and give up their taxpayer funded paychecks like Trump does.


52 posted on 04/18/2017 12:45:51 PM PDT by dforest
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To: GIdget2004

They say DJT has spent more to date than Obama spent IN EIGHT YEARS?!? Are they out of their f***ing minds?

All those junkets of dozens of people to Africa, Hawaii, and 50 other places? Michelle and Hussein taking cross-country flights within an hour of each other? Granny being schlepped along with the entourage?

How stupid to they think we are?


53 posted on 04/18/2017 12:46:27 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("If we cannot control our tempers, what has grace done for us?" Charles Spurgeon)
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To: DoughtyOne

That same idiot was a duffer and took mulligans.

Hell, the news guys covering him literally said “This guy sucks”.

He couldn’t bowl, wore mom pants, rode a girls bike and ghe worst....this is literally the worst

He threw like a girl....

When Trump golfs he is actually working and gets deals done or sets the foundation for a deal.

He’s gotten businesses to proclaim they are growing because they have faith in him.

Every, that every day, we are reading about all kinds of businesses who are hiring.

The stock market was suppose to tank and well, it looks like it is rising every week since the election.

That since the election. Not because of any policy i initiative. That is on his personality alone.

What is going to happen to the economy when he gets his policy initiative’s?

He just put the world on notice with our “Arsenal of Democracy”. Not the WWII arsenal that we loaned out. He used our actual arsenal.

I suspect more than one nation got the message and is at least not advancing certain political and military objectives the previous pussies allowed.

He gave our generals more leeway and autonomy to pursue, destroy and kill Islamic terrorists and I guess he had only prerequisite “be mindful of optics” but, do your worst...(or something like that)

Shut up Joni


54 posted on 04/18/2017 12:46:30 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: VietVet876
The geographic center of the contiguous United States is located at 39°50′N 98°35′W, in Kansas about 2.6 miles (4.2 km) northwest of the center of Lebanon, approximately 12 miles (19 km) south of the Kansas-Nebraska border.[
55 posted on 04/18/2017 12:47:06 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: odawg

LOL, that was a good one!


56 posted on 04/18/2017 12:47:14 PM PDT by dforest
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To: GIdget2004

Joni should spend more time at her pig farm and away from Washington DC.


57 posted on 04/18/2017 12:47:56 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: GIdget2004

For any who want to give Ernest a few thoughts on her priorities and comments, here are a few links:

http://www.ernst.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact

https://www.facebook.com/senjoniernst/

https://twitter.com/joniernst?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor


58 posted on 04/18/2017 12:47:56 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Buckeye McFrog; All

And just a relevant question: has anybody ever determined exactly why the Obama Admin replaced ALL the computers? Didn’t want the hard drives examined, maybe? Was there ever a reason given?


59 posted on 04/18/2017 12:48:00 PM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: Parley Baer

“Trump most likely works about 16 hours per day M-F. Then he works at Mar A Largo. Joni needs to bug off.”

And where was all this GOP complaining when obama was flying to Honolulu, Hawaii, to play golf and all over e.g. Palm Springs, California and Florida to just play golf and of course every chance he got playing At Andrews AFB and around DC. I sure didn’t hear any bitching then.


60 posted on 04/18/2017 12:48:23 PM PDT by kagnew
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