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I do finds it fascinating that immediately after Trump took office, all of a sudden a lot of Americans began to care about a lot of things that they used to scoff at (or simply weren't interested enough to even read about it before), particularly on how much the U.S government costs to operate: security details, air transportation, equipment procurement, all that good stuffs with sky-high price tags that everyone just automatically accepted before, but our wonderful MSM are just slowly discovering what good rage-bait they could be for the previously less-informed.
Bitching about government cost/waste is not new. Here are articles about costs under Obama from both L and C sources.
Remember the $200 million dollar per day Obama trip to India that was made up by Bachmann and tore through conservative and MSM media that turned out to be complete BS?
http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2010/11/04/wh-under-fire-cost-obamas-india-trip
Here is HuffPo talking about Obama's $100 M Africa trip
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/14/obama-africa-trip_n_3441510.html
Also, DHS came under a lot of criticism for buying a 100 year supply of ammunition to get a volume discount.
Also here is WaPo discussion the DoD $435 hammer. They explain why the accounting works out that way, but at least are discussing it.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/14/obama-africa-trip_n_3441510.html