Tag: Travel

Sanders defended Trump's use of Air Force One -- which costs about $180,000 an hour to operate -- to visit his properties in Florida and New Jersey on 17 weekends. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

White House: Trump’s regular weekend trips not setting a bad example for jet-setting Cabinet

Steven Nelson · October 5, 2017 7:34 pm

President Trump administration told the Supreme Court Thursday to view earlier litigation over the president's travel ban as moot. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump attorneys tell Supreme Court travel ban fight is moot, Hawaii says not so fast

Ryan Lovelace · October 5, 2017 5:20 pm

Energy Secretary Rick Perry is the latest Cabinet-level official to be found to have used a chartered flight. Perry took a private chartered flight to visit a uranium-processing facility in Ohio the day before HHS Secretary Tom Price resigned. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Energy and Environment

Rick Perry is the latest to board flight scandal

John Siciliano · October 5, 2017 3:14 pm

Journalist Nicholas Kristof said he noticed "positive changes" in North Korea during his recent visit there.

New York Times columnist sees ‘positive changes’ in North Korea

Eddie Scarry · October 5, 2017 1:40 pm

Zinke said the private and military transportation was necessary when commercial flights were unavailable or impractical for the kind of travel required by him. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Energy and Environment

House GOP wants to compare Interior’s Ryan Zinke’s travel with predecessors

Susan Ferrechio · October 4, 2017 2:19 pm

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., isn't letting the former Health and Human Services secretary off the hook. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Beltway Confidential

In letter to Steve Mnuchin, Sen. Patty Murray pressures Tom Price to follow through on his pledge to repay private flight costs

Emily Jashinsky · October 4, 2017 1:43 pm

Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said President Trump is making sure the controversy over administration officials using private and government planes is "not going to happen again." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Mick Mulvaney: Trump is making sure travel controversies will not be repeated

Naomi Lim · October 1, 2017 4:01 pm

The Treasury Department says that concerns about secure communications with government agencies is what prompted Secretary Steven Mnuchin to inquire about using a government plane for his European honeymoon in August. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Steven Mnuchin: Taking military flight to Fort Knox was ‘completely justifiable’

John Siciliano · October 1, 2017 3:45 pm

President Trump spent two hours on Friday chastising HHS Secretary Tom Price in the Oval Office for his use of private and military aircraft the past few months. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Trump reprimanded Tom Price for two hours in the Oval Office over flights: Report

Diana Stancy Correll · September 30, 2017 3:39 am

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned from the Trump administration in the wake of a scandal involving his use of charter planes. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Read Tom Price’s resignation letter to Trump

Pete Kasperowicz · September 29, 2017 9:21 pm

Tom Price resigned as Health and Human Services Secretary on Friday amid controversy over his private jet travels. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Tom Price was a man who couldn’t be trusted

Timothy P. Carney · September 29, 2017 9:03 pm

Liberal columnist Nicholas Kristof is reporting from North Korea and sharing photos on social media of school children, food and the "fun" he is witnessing in the rogue country. One photo showed what appeared to be an amusement park. (Nicholas Kristof/Instagram)

Nicholas Kristof in North Korea shares photos of ‘fun’ and pizza

Eddie Scarry · September 29, 2017 3:21 pm