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The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation spent more than $8 million on travel in 2013 and received donations of $144.4 million, according to Internal Revenue Service documents. The bill led critics at a Republican PAC to question whether prospective 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton used the nonprofit organizations budget to pay for political trips.

At the Clinton Foundation, its unclear the line between charity and multi-million dollar political organization funneling money to subsidize the Clintons private political air travel and courting of prospective presidential campaign donors, Tim Miller, executive director for the Republican research arm America Rising and a former spokesman for the Republican National Committee, told Politico. Given the extravagant luxury travel and fundraising expenditures that could help a potential presidential campaign, the Clinton Foundation must be transparent about how these funds were spent, detailing flight costs, itineraries, manifests and other relevant information.

The Clinton Foundations travel budget amounted to 10 percent of its total expenses last year and nearly doubled travel expenses of previous years, according to the IRS documents. The Board recognizes that, due to extraordinary security and other requirements, William J. Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton may require the need to travel by charter or in first class, the determination of which will be made on a case-by-case basis, the foundation said in the IRS filings.

Clinton representatives denied that the foundations travel budget was indicative of Hillary Clintons political efforts. Her foundation travel in 2013 did not intersect at all with any political travel. There was no overlap. Period. The accusation is patently, but not surprisingly given its source, false, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said.

The Clinton Foundation received $144.4 million in donations last year, according to the IRS filings. The total nearly tripled the $51.5 million in funds received in 2012, CNN noted.

A former first lady and secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, Clinton ran for president in 2008 and is expected to announce her bid for the 2016 presidential race in the near future. In September, Clinton said that she will make a decision on whether to run by the end of 2014, CNN reported.

Clinton traveled more than any other secretary of state in U.S. history, visiting a record 112 countries during her time in office. She spent more than a year of her four-year term in transit, according to the Atlantic.

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By Perry Bacon Jr.

Message to Hillary Clinton: focus on wage stagnation and income inequality in 2016, or lose.

At the annual conference of the Center for American Progress, the liberal think tank with close ties to both the Clintons and the Obama administration, some of the Democrats leading policy strategists and politicians almost universally agreed that offering specific policies to boost the income of middle-class Americans is the issue the party must confront in 2016.

There was little direct talk of Clintons candidacy at the event on Wednesday. But the conference was full of criticism of the partys message in 2014, which these Democrats felt was both overly cautious and too focused on issues like gender pay equity and the minimum wage instead of broader economic challenges. They urged a different approach in 2016, when Clinton is widely expected to be the Democrats presidential nominee.

"The issue that is going to animate the election is the wage squeeze, stagnant wages mixed with higher costs"

We need a message .... that as a Democratic Party, this is what were committed to. Were committed to higher wages, were committed to opportunity for everybody to share in the economy, said Ted Strickland, the former Ohio governor, who is now a top advisor at CAP.

There are clear conclusions you can draw from this election [2014] and apply to 2016, at all levels: It is to have a clear, blunt, progressive economic message, relentlessly put it out, and be willing to talk about the changes we need to do in our economy and our society to actually address what is a declining middle class, said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who participated in a question and answer session at the conference.

Neera Tanden, who has served as an policy aide to both Obama and Clinton and is now CAPs president, argued the wage stagnation had become such a big problem that candidates from both parties will need to address it in 2016.

The issue that is going to animate the election is the wage squeeze, stagnant wages mixed with higher costs, said Tanden. My own view is that whoever is running is going to have to figure out a way to address that, on the Republican and the Democratic side, because it is the issue that is causing the most anxiety.

Wage stagnation, these Democrats say, is the equivalent of the Iraq War and health care reform in 2007. Back then, Democratic activists demanded Clinton, Obama and the partys other candidates offer specific plans to get the U.S out of Iraq and create some kind of near-universal health system. There will be a similar pressure to offer proposals on the middle-class squeeze for Clinton or any other candidate.

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