Senate chairman formally requests an independent investigation into the Air Force’s increased use of a commercial airport in Scotland and overnight stays at the Trump Turnberry resort
POLITICO, which was first to report the practice, also revealed that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been investigating the stopovers since April. Earlier Tuesday, the panelPentagon officials if they failed to respond to a June 21 letter seeking documents on the use of the airport, including $11 million spent on fuel since 2017.
The Air Force has said the stops are within Pentagon guidelines and noted that the Turnberry bookings, in some instances orchestrated by a local travel service, fall within acceptable rates for military travel. But the Air Force also conceded that the appearance of staying at the president’s property might create a negative perception.Sign up for Morning Defense, a daily briefing on Washington's national security apparatus.
Another Air Force official, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said the task requires reviewing travel vouchers individually and estimated that it would require “hundreds of man-hours.” “I am troubled that this information was not provided until news reports revealed the Air Force’s approvals of stays at Turnberry,” the senator added in his letter to the Pentagon inspector general. “ … I find it hard to believe the Air Force was capable of reporting the exact number of trips to Prestwick, but, according to the Deputy head of Air Mobility Command, the Air Force ‘could not report how many of these overnights may have been at Trump Turnberry.
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