Oct 24, 2009 ... [14]; The refusal of many federal employees to fly coach costs taxpayers $146  million annually in flight upgrades.[15]; Washington will spend $126 million in  2009 to enhance the Kennedy family legacy in Massachusetts. Additionally,  Senator John Kerry (D-MA) diverted $20 million from the 2010 defense ...
Oct 6, 2009 ... President Obama recently identified 0.004 of 1 percent of the federal budget as  wasteful and proposed eliminating this $140 million from his $3.6 trillion fiscal  year 2010 budget request. Aiming higher, the President recently proposed  partially offsetting a costly new government health entitlement by reducing ...
Dec 1, 2017 ... [12] Health care fraud is estimated to cost taxpayers more than $60 billion  annually. [13]A GAO audit found that 95 Pentagon weapons systems suffered  from a combined $295 billion in cost overruns. [14]The refusal of many federal  employees to fly coach costs taxpayers $146 million annually in flight ...
Oct 31, 2008 ... Mukasey reimbursed the government a total of $15,246 for all of his trips, based  on round-trip coach fares, as he's required to do by government travel .... After the  GAO found last year that government employees had inappropriately traveled by  first class or business class at a cost of $146 million, the Bush ...
Mar 4, 2014 ... The federal government spent millions of dollars on thousands of upgraded  flights for employees in 2012 and 2013, paying many times more for business  and first-class seats than the same flights would have cost in coach or the  government-contracted rate. Premium travel reports from 14 federal agencies ...
The refusal of many federal employees to fly coach costs taxpayers $146 million annually.