There is no more penny-pinching entity in the world than Democrats when a Republican is in power. Those assholes made junkets all over the world, all the time when Biden was shitting up the Oval Office.
Were I Kash Patel, I'd say, "Yeah, I was in Milan and I got there on the corporate jet. Wanna know why? Because **** you, that's why. If that stupid horsefaced whore had won, there'd be lines of imprisoned freaks waiting for the sex change operations she promised. Me? Only came to do two things: drink beer, and watch US Hockey dominate. And I'm almost out of beer."