Madison Hall
Business Insider
Independent Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has spent more than $200,000 of her congressional office budget on private jet travel, according to a new report from The Daily Beast.
By adding up the amount of money Sinema has spent on chartered flights as published in the semiannual “Report of the Secretary of the Senate,” the publication found she’s paid travel companies around $210,000 since 2020, a year after she began her time in Congress.
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As a member of the Senate, via the Senators’ Official Personnel and Office Expense Account, Sinema is granted around $4 million each fiscal year to spend on paying her staff, transporting herself to and from her home in Arizona, supplies, and any other work expenses.
As The Daily Beast noted, senators have very few restrictions on allocating their yearly office allowance; there’s nothing illegal about Sinema spending more than her yearly salary on private jet travel over the past four years.
