New report reveals that Sen. Ron Johnson (Republican from Wisconsin) has been using taxpayer funds to pay for trips to Washington D.C. from his Florida vacation home. He spent thousands of dollars on this trip alone.
Johnson, whose net worth is estimated to be greater than $39 millionLast year, he traveled at least nine more times to Fort Myers, Florida, a vacation house he and family own. In 2013, a company that belonged to his family trust bought the home for $1.6million.
Johnson paid the bill for his vacation home travels. However, federal records show that the two-term Republican senator has had travel expenses reimbursed for flights from Florida back to the nation’s capital 19 times between 2013 and May 2021. These travels cost an average of $227 to $1152 for each individual ticket. according to a report from The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
While it’s impossible to know the exact amount that Johnson has billed taxpayers, the Journal-Sentinel estimates that it’s between $5,418 and $18,781 this year alone.
Alexa Henning, spokesperson for Johnson claimed that he has “never been reimbursed for travel to visit family in Florida but is reimbursed for returning for official business to Washington, D.C.” Henning also said that Johnson’s actions fall in line with Senate Rules Committee guidelines.
Despite claiming last month that he was “for total transparency” and “the truth” when it comes to his personal government spending, Johnson has expressed outrage over the reporting. Thursday was Johnson’s fourth birthday. the senator described the reportingFrom the Journal Sentinel as “a fully coordinated attack by the [Democratic] Party and their allies in the media.”
“When the truth isn’t on their side, Dems and [mainstream] media lie, distort, and engage in the politics of personal destruction,” he said on Twitter.
Johnson is up again for reelection. Johnson has previously stated that he would not run for more than two terms. he reneged on that pledge earlier this year, announcing that he would run for a third term in this year’s midterm election races.
The Wisconsin senator is considered one of the most vulnerable Republicans running for reelection, and for good reason — several scandals and damning misstatements from Johnson (including his anti-science stances Climate crisis The COVID pandemic) have rendered him unpopular in the state, with a recent poll showing that only 36 percent of residents in Wisconsin view him in a favorable light46 percent of those who see him unfavorably are more likely to agree with them.
Johnson falsely claimed on Friday that the horrific school shooting at Uvalde, Texas, in whose 19 victims and two others were killed, was Johnson’s fault. was somehow related to schools discussing racism and the “teaching of wokeness.”
