Jun 21
President Obama is about to head off to Africa for a weeklong trip with his family, where he will visit South Africa, Senegal and Tanzania — but the White House isn’t sure how much it’s going to cost.
“We don’t have the exact figure on costs — frankly we don’t own or control those numbers,” Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for strategic communications, told Yahoo News.
“The security requirements, which make up the bulk of the cost, are determined by the Secret Service, and they don’t publicly release the breakdown of the costs for these types of trips.”
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