Taxpayers spent more than $100,000 on the Clintons' Christmas vacation

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The Clinton family partied in the Dominican Republic over Christmas, and the Secret Service hotel bill alone came out to $104,093 for a single week. Though the Clintons' own expenses were paid out of pocket, taxpayers got to pick up the tab for their bodyguards' hotel rooms.

Of course, even "out of pocket" is a debatable term when it comes to ex-presidents. Clinton has received more than $16 million in pension money and other tax-funded benefits since leaving office, support he hardly needs when giving million-dollar speeches on the regular.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.