POLITICS
FEC documents shows Harris campaign spent $2.6 million on private flights for staff in October, going into debt
The Harris presidential campaign spent $2.6 million on private flights in the last few weeks of the election season, documents show.
The costs ranged from $3,500 to $940,000 per disbursement, with $2.2 million going to a company named Private Jet Services Group, while $430,000 went to Advanced Aviation Team, a charter flight broker. presidential campaign spent $2.6 million on private flights in the last few weeks of the election season, documents show.
The costs ranged from $3,500 to $940,000 per disbursement, with $2.2 million going to a company named Private Jet Services Group, while $430,000 went to Advanced Aviation Team, a charter flight broker.
The campaign’s use of private jets has been criticized in recent weeks for both financial and environmental reasons. Private jets emit more greenhouse gases per passenger than commercial flights do, and Harris previously said climate change was an “existential threat.”
“There’s no question we have to be practical. But being practical also recognizes that climate change is an existential threat to us as human beings,”
Harris told CNN in 2019. “Being practical recognizes that greenhouse gas emissions are threatening our air and threatening the planet and that it is well within our capacity as human beings to change our behaviors in a way that we can reduce its effects.”
