Michelle Obama plans to promote her year-old global girls' education initiative during upcoming stops in Liberia, Morocco and Spain on what could be her final solo overseas excursion as first lady.
The White House announced Wednesday that the three-country trip is booked for June 27-July 1. Her traveling companions are daughters Malia and Sasha, and her mother, Marian Robinson.
Actresses Freida Pinto and Meryl Streep are lending their star-power to the first lady's Africa appearances.
The trip is likely to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax-payer money, according to expense reports from the First Lady's prior trips to the African continent.
Mrs Obama racked up $424,142 on travel and expenses for the plane crew on her 2011 trip to Botswana and South Africa.
The plane that Mrs Obama usually travels on costs $11,684 an hour to operate, and with about 25 hours on her upcoming trip - the bill should amount to a little less than $300,000 just for flying alone.
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Meryl can afford to pay her own way.
ReplyDeleteMeryl will never live this mistake down..
ReplyDeleteOr at least chip in.
ReplyDeletemoney is no object, uh oh my break is over I have to get back to work
ReplyDeleteHopefully the flight isn't a round trip
ReplyDeleteMaybe while Moochelle is over there she will decide to stay. Since she hates America so much.
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