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   WASHINGTON — Maybe it’s all he ever wanted.   
      
   President Biden is taking heat for spending 40% of his days in   
   office “on vacation” after he was away from the White House for   
   two-thirds of August.   
      
   Biden’s weekend jaunts and vacations spanned 234 days — with   
   seven in 10 of them spent at his homes in Wilmington and   
   Rehoboth Beach, Delaware — out of 589 days in office.   
      
   RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel told The Post that Republicans   
   believe it’s a winning campaign issue — alongside concerns over   
   the effects of Biden-era spending, including Democrats’ $1.9   
   trillion stimulus package last year and this year’s $437 billion   
   environmental and health care bill.   
      
   “Voters want Republicans, who actually show up to work, to dig   
   America out of Biden’s recession, secure the southern border,   
   and put an end to reckless spending of taxpayer dollars,”   
   McDaniel said.   
      
   “Soon, Democrats will be able to join Biden on his weekly   
   vacations when Americans vote them out in less than 70 days,”   
   she added, referring to the midterm congressional elections.   
      
   The 19-month tally of Biden trips was assembled by the RNC and   
   is consistent with independent journalistic counts. It includes   
   days that Biden spent at his Delaware residences as well as days   
   at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, and trips   
   to Nantucket, Massachusetts, and Kiawah Island, South Carolina.   
      
   White House spokesman Andrew Bates pushed back on the criticism   
   of Biden’s travel, saying, “The presidency is a nonstop job that   
   chief executives can do from anywhere in the world.”   
      
   “Regardless of location, he has taken fewer vacation days than   
   the modern norm,” Bates asserted. “Being somewhere other than   
   the White House is not the same thing as being on vacation. And   
   President Biden is constantly focused on the numbers that are   
   most important to the American people: lowering costs for   
   families — like prescription drugs and energy — reducing the   
   deficit to fight inflation, creating the most jobs of any year   
   in American history and bringing manufacturing jobs back from   
   overseas, growing the membership of NATO, and passing the most   
   significant gun reform law in almost 30 years.”   
      
   Although Biden’s staff dispute the characterization that he’s   
   not working during the trips, he’s generally out of the public   
   eye for most of his days away from DC while relaxing with family   
   members and friends.   
      
   Transparency advocates, meanwhile, say it’s alarming that Biden   
   refuses to release visitor logs for locations other than the   
   White House — saying it makes a mockery of his administration’s   
   self-praise for releasing partial West Wing visitor logs.   
      
   First son Hunter Biden, who is under federal investigation for   
   possible tax fraud, money laundering and lobbying violations in   
   connection to his foreign business dealings, often travels with   
   his father after repeatedly introducing his dad to associates   
   during his vice presidency.   
      
   Tom Fitton, president of conservative transparency group   
   Judicial Watch, said, “One would hope that President Biden is   
   working when he is on ‘vacation’ in Delaware, [but] the   
   unwillingness of the White House to disclose his official   
   visitors at Delaware suggests that there is something to hide —   
   including that Biden is completely checked out from his job when   
   away from the White House.”   
      
   At the same time, Fitton said, “The secrecy makes it easier for   
   Hunter and the family to continue their grift.”   
      
   The Secret Service told The Post in April that it was unable to   
   locate any records of visitors to Biden’s Delaware residences.   
   The Post submitted a Freedom of Information Act appeal   
   challenging that claim.   
      
   For more than a decade, Judicial Watch and liberal group   
   Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington have   
   battled in court for presidential visitor logs, including from   
   personal residences.   
      
   The White House notes that Biden regularly travels to Delaware   
   and other destinations with senior advisers, and deputy White   
      
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