Fact Checker: Bachmann Complains about $1.4 Billion Cost to Run Obama White House Even Though the Cost to Run Bush’s White House Was $1.6 Billion

$1.6 Billion

Cost to run the Bush White per year — slightly more than the $1.4 billion cost of running the Obama White House, as cited in an attack on the president by Minnesota tea bagger Michele Bachmann at CPAC this weekend. The Fact Checker column from the Washington Post awarded Bachmann four Pinochios for this lie and noted that Bachmann scored the highest number of its Four Pinochio awards among all Republican candidates during the primaries last year.

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