Overview

• The State Budget Committee published the inaugural annual travel reports for July 2024–June 2025 as required by the new law, showing about $97,000 in total spending by statewide officials.
• Secretary of State Diego Morales reported nearly $33,000, including 19 out-of-state trips with nine to Chicago and a $4,241 Puerto Rico conference, with roughly one-third of his total attributed to fuel.
• Morales’s previously criticized India trip does not appear in the filings after he said he repaid the costs, and he has described a May Hungary visit as personal and paid by a conservative group.
• Gov. Mike Braun logged 144 trips but under $8,300 in costs, highlighted by a $4,200 helicopter flight, while Comptroller Elise Nieshalla reported just under $12,000, Treasurer Dan Elliott about $9,300, and Education Secretary Katie Jenner more than $6,400.
• Attorney General Todd Rokita listed 100 trips with each purpose marked only as “official business” for roughly $4,400 in total, and several officials recorded travel to Washington for January’s presidential inauguration with widely varying costs.