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Final Obama travel tab: $100 million

By Paul Bedard

Published May 17, 2017 7:28pm ET

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Final Obama travel tab: $100 million — President Barack Obama accompanied by first lady Michelle Obama and his daughter Sasha, steps off from Air Force One upon their arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, Jan. 2, 2017. The President and his family are returning from vacation in Hawaii. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) | Jose Luis Magana

The final tab for former President Obama’s eight years of family travel to ski resorts, beaches and European cities has finally come in and the bill is $99,714,527.82.

Judicial Watch, the taxpayer watchdog group that has shifted its attention to President Trump’s travel costs, said it just received some of the last responses to Obama-era Freedom of Information Act requests for trip costs from the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Secret Service.

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