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On the recordOctober 11, 2017
I have been chairing this Democracy Reform Task Force. We are actually releasing a report today called Trump's High Flying Cabinet which details what I see as kind of a culture of entitlement among many of the cabinet members in terms of using these private jets at public expense to kind of jet around the country in ways that I think are offensive to the average person out there.
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John Sarbanes
Democratic · Maryland

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Sarbanes criticizes cabinet members for excessive private jet use at public expense.

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