The Clifton, in Charlottesville, Va., about two hours from D.C., is offering a $1,895 three-night inauguration package, and the Tremont Plaza Hotel in Baltimore is offering a $7,000-a-night 7,000-a-night 7,000-a-night
(Some donors were annoyed when tickets to the event were pulled from one of the inauguration packages after a venue change left fewer seats available).
As dumb as this sounds, these sorts of inane inauguration packages are something of a tradition, and they get quite silly.
But mostly he slammed Mr. Obama, within days of the inauguration, for the $831 billion package of spending and tax cuts that a Democratic-led Congress soon passed.
Before Trump's Jan . 20inauguration, National Security Council officials drafting memos, or "packages," for the president on a classified computer system could choose other officials who should have input.
The economic stimulus package proposed by Barack Obama, whose inauguration is on Tuesday, calls for the creation of at least three million jobs by investing hundreds of billions of dollars in the nation's aging infrastructure.
Lulled by his success in passing an $800 billion stimulus package 24 days after his inauguration, and perhaps not fully cognizant of the tone set by doing so almost exclusively with Democratic votes, he found that everything else came harder, like his health care program, or not at all, like climate and immigration legislation.
The package, available Oct. 1 through the inauguration, is $5,000 a night.
But Mr. McConnell's citation could help as leaders talk about putting the next Congress to work early so it can deliver an economic stimulus package in sync with the Jan . 20inauguration.
Mr Obama incorporated those goals in a two-year $175 billion proposal and may join forces with Congress to pass such a package in a "lame duck" session before inauguration day.
(In fact, people who donate $50,000 to the inauguration receive four tickets to official inaugural events, and Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Steven Spielberg and Sharon Stone, among others, have signed up. There is also a smaller package for $10,000).
