Hey, remember last year when Obama appointed Biden last year to “root out” wasteful government spending? Joey might want to take a look at his own weekend travel pattern. Every weekend Biden takes Marine Two from DC back to Delaware. This costs tax payers about a million dollars per year! I guess Joey isn’t into the whole Amtrak thing anymore or something. Oh and remember, he rakes in $21,000 per year by charging the Secret Service rent at his cottage.
Every Friday, Biden takes a helicopter designated as Marine Two from the vice president’s residence to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland and then hops on Air Force Two to fly back to his home in Delaware. At the end of the weekend, he returns on Air Force Two, usually a Boeing C-32.
During warm weather, Biden regularly returns to Andrews on the airplane on Saturdays to play golf at the Air Force base with President Obama. After the golf game, he flies back to Delaware and returns to Washington on the plane on Sunday evening — all at taxpayer expense.
The cost of flying Air Force Two is $22,000 an hour, so each half-hour trip to or from Delaware costs about $10,000. Each golf game costs taxpayers $20,000. At that rate, the annual cost to taxpayers of Biden’s weekend trips is well over $1 million.
In addition, the Secret Service rents more than 20 condominiums in the Wilmington, Del. area for agents who must accompany Biden when he returns to his home state.