Though they campaigned on a platform of reducing the deficit and ridding wasteful spending, more than a half-dozen Tea Party congressmen have collectively spent over $100,000 in taxpayer money on personal vehicles.

ThinkProgress examined spending records for the 112th Congress and found seven GOP freshmen — Reps. Chip Cravaack (R-MN), Sean Duffy (R-WI), Bill Flores (R-TX), Cory Gardner (R-CO), Bill Johnson (R-OH), Mike Pompeo (R-KS), and Steve Womack (R-AR) — who had spent an average of $15,000 on cars for themselves. All together, their taxpayer bill totaled $106,643.

There is nothing illegal about the practice of using taxpayer money to lease personal-use cars, but it smacks of hypocrisy for Tea Partiers like Duffy who promised to “lead by example” when it comes to deficit reduction.

Many of the vehicles go beyond a standard sedan. For example, Cravaack is charging taxpayers more than $1,000 a month to pay the lease on his 2011 Chevy Equinox, a crossover SUV with all-wheel drive.

Here’s what the seven Republican freshmen’s congressional offices have spent on cars in the past year and a half:

• Rep. Chip Cravaack (R-MN): $25,580.84
• Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI): $24,525.00
• Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX): $10,997.45
• Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO): $20,978.07
• Rep. Bill Johnson (R-OH): $4,889.76
• Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS): $8,848.00
• Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR): $10,746.59
• TOTAL: $106,643

Data from this report was compiled from the House of Representatives’ official Statement of Disbursements, a quarterly publication regarding all expenditures for House offices, for the 112th Congress.

Angela Guo contributed to this report.

Billionaire Mitt Romney backer and fundraiser Donald Trump is responding to calls for Romney to release his tax returns by doubling down on his birther claims and insisting that President Obama should first release his college applications. “I don’t think Romney should give anything until such time as Obama gives his college records and applications,” Trump said on Fox & Friends, adding, “you will see things that you’re not going to believe”:

TRUMP: The problem is, you put them out, and they take them, as they have with this previous put out, and they make them look bad when it’s nothing wrong. They make them look bad. They’ll take anything that he puts out — and they’re complicated and large because, unlike other people, he did a lot — and they make him look bad. But I would say this, I would put them out. But we want to see your college applications and your college records because we want transparency also. And I think somebody ought to bring it up. You will see things that you’re not going to believe.

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President Obama has released 12 years of returns while Romney has only released two. Trump did say that he would make available multiple years of returns.