Only two days in London were spent at the veterans conference.

VA Press Secretary Curtis Cashour told ABC News, “As Secretary Shulkin points out, he travels far less than any recent VA secretary, takes no private jets, and was the first cabinet secretary to post details of his travel online for all to see. That said, accountability and transparency are important values at VA under President Trump, and we look forward to seeing the report.”

The VA IG declined to comment, saying Wednesday's report will speak for itself.

Shulkin is not the only official whose travel is being questioned.

Documents released this week show that the EPA spent around $90,000 for agency administrator Scott Pruitt and his staff to travel to the G7 summit in Bologna to meet with environmental ministers and leaders, the story was first reported by the Washington Post. Pruitt reaffirmed that the U.S. planned to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement at that meeting and was back in Washington the next day when he participated in a cabinet meeting at the White House.

The administrator paid about $7,000 for his trip which took him from New York to Rome and then back to Washington, D.C. from Milan. Flights for staffers and other EPA officials on the trip cost around $2,000.

Additionally, part of that same trip was a $36,000 military flight to fly Pruitt from Cincinnati to New York so he would make his flight to Rome. President Trump requested Pruitt come to Cincinnati for an event on June 7 last year to tout the Republican tax bill and visit water infrastructure sites, according to an EPA memo approving the trip. Pruitt flew to Cincinnati with the president on Air Force One. The memo was part of documents obtained by the Environmental Integrity Project through a FOIA request and first reported by The Post.

The EPA released a statement defending the administrator's travel saying that \"EPA staff seek cost-efficient travel options at all times and coordinate with Agency ethics officials.\"

The documents also show that Pruitt spent more than $1,500 for a flight from Washington, DC to New York for media interviews, while a staffer that traveled to assist Pruitt on the trip only paid $238 for his ticket. The EPA inspector general is currently looking into Pruitt's travel costs after previously released documents showed the agency spent $58,000 on other chartered and military flights from June to August of last year.

The EPA says that upgraded flights are recommended by Pruitt's security team. He has received \"an unprecedented amount of threats,\" according to the EPA.

Pruitt flew first class to New Hampshire on Wednesday and told the New Hampshire Union Leader that there were some incidents on flights during his first few months in office.

“We live in a very toxic environment politically, particularly around issues of the environment,” Pruitt told the Union-Leader. “We’ve reached the point where there’s not much civility in the marketplace and it’s created, you know, it’s created some issues and the (security) detail, the level of protection is determined by the level of threat.”

He told the paper all travel decisions are made by his security detail and chief of staff. EPA Spokesman Jahan Wilcox also said that Pruitt has a blanket waiver to fly in business or first class because of security concerns.

But retired EPA law enforcement official Michael Hubbard said it's \"patently absurd\" to put a protectee in first class where they would be in view of everyone on the plane. He said he would put someone he was protecting in the back of the plane with security around them to be as unobtrusive as possible.

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