Taxpayers chip in on birthday gift for first lady
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}President Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia left Oahu after 15-day holiday vacation in a beachfront luxury home in Kailua, Oahu.
They also left a pretty big bill.
The Obamas’ vacation cost taxpayers more than $4 million for travel, staffing, security, housing, car rentals and transportation of vehicles and a helicopter.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}But the expenses continue.
First lady Michelle Obama extended her own vacation, flying to the island of Maui, where she is spending time with family friend Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey’s magazine describes the home as a “perfect 21st-century farmhouse” in a “remote up-country region, where the houses that dot the moss-covered rock hillside face the ocean.”
The president said he sent his wife to Maui as an early birthday present; she turns 50 Jan. 17.
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