Secret Service Can’t Afford Trump Family’s Lifestyle

[Lakhota]

The agency recently asked for $60 million more, but was told “no.”

President Donald Trump’s frequent travel, large family and unusual living situation are apparently weighing heavily on the Secret Service’s budget.

The agency recently requested an additional $60 million in spending for fiscal year 2018, according to a Washington Post report on Tuesday. Nearly $27 million of that was to be earmarked for security at the president’s private residence at Trump Tower in New York, where first lady Melania Trump lives with their 11-year-old son. The Secret Service also said it needed another $33 million to cover travel costs incurred by “the president, vice president and other visiting heads of state.”

The Office of Management and Budget rejected the request, a source told the Post, which could potentially force the Secret Service to scale back on other operations, like investigations into cyber hacking, counterfeit currency, financial crimes or missing and exploited minors.

The Post report comes amid questions about the president’s regular weekend jaunts to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Trump has made at least five trips to the “Southern White House” since his inauguration, each time costing taxpayers an estimated $3 million or more.

Providing Secret Service details for the first lady and the rest of Trump’s family, including his four adult sons and daughters, has also led to mounting costs. Although this level of protection is standard for the first family, the specific needs of Trump’s older children have attracted scrutiny.

In February, for example, Eric Trump flew to Uruguay to promote the Trump Organization. The trip ended up costing taxpayers nearly $90,000 in hotel bills for the Secret Service agents who accompanied him, leading to renewed criticism of how the president’s business interests intertwine with government functions.

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This is unconscionable! Trump is costing American taxpayers a fortune!

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

You're kidding, right?

 

[Pogo]

The Manhattan contingent alone (Melania and Baron) costs half a million a DAY. Just because they don't want to live in the House the taxpayers already provide.

That's 182.5 million a year. Just for that, and it doesn't include the POTUS, any of his adult children, or Mar-a-Yugo.

 

[xyz]

So is he unofficially separated from his wife? She doesn't live at the White House and he goes to Florida for the weekend, every weekend.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

The Manhattan contingent alone (Melania and Baron) costs half a million a DAY. Just because they don't want to live in the House the taxpayers already provide.

That's 182.5 million a year. Just for that, and it doesn't include the POTUS, any of his adult children, or Mar-a-Yugo.

How much did the Obama's cost the Secret Service? What was the total expense for their vacation travels and entourage of friends and security? Any idea?

 

[xyz]

The Manhattan contingent alone (Melania and Baron) costs half a million a DAY. Just because they don't want to live in the House the taxpayers already provide.

That's 182.5 million a year. Just for that, and it doesn't include the POTUS, any of his adult children, or Mar-a-Yugo.

How much did the Obama's cost the Secret Service? What was the total expense for their vacation travels and entourage of friends and security? Any idea?

Trump Will Cost Americans Over 20 Times More Than Obama

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Report: 8 years of Obama vacations cost $85 million
If you add in extras the author says it is closer to 90 million dollars but I find that number to be low. I don't believe this includes secret service, cost of jet fuel to and from etc.

I'm guessing Obama cost the American tax payer about 150 - 200 million including security and paying for entourage of friends & family & staff and security to travel with them.

Trump stays at his own hotels. He's been exceedingly thrifty compared to the Obama's.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

The Manhattan contingent alone (Melania and Baron) costs half a million a DAY. Just because they don't want to live in the House the taxpayers already provide.

That's 182.5 million a year. Just for that, and it doesn't include the POTUS, any of his adult children, or Mar-a-Yugo.

How much did the Obama's cost the Secret Service? What was the total expense for their vacation travels and entourage of friends and security? Any idea?

Trump Will Cost Americans Over 20 Times More Than Obama

There simply are no words.

 

[Locke11_21]

What should be done is to have people who vote democrat be taxed to pay for Secret Service protection since that is who the Secret Service is protecting the Trumps from.

 

[Pogo]

So is he unofficially separated from his wife? She doesn't live at the White House and he goes to Florida for the weekend, every weekend.

And then there's the ex-wives. They getting SS too?
That would be Tiffany's, Don Jr's and Eric's moms....

 

[Pogo]

What should be done is to have people who vote democrat be taxed to pay for Secret Service protection since that is who the Secret Service is protecting the Trumps from.

Wrongo.
A big part of SS protection is to prevent kidnappings. That could be undertaken by, say, a radical who's pissed at how Rump is treating their country --- oh, say.... Mexico.... Iraq.... Yemen.... well you know the list.

 

[Lakhota]

What should be done is to have people who vote democrat be taxed to pay for Secret Service protection since that is who the Secret Service is protecting the Trumps from.

Wrongo.
A big part of SS protection is to prevent kidnappings. That could be undertaken by, say, a radical who's pissed at how Rump is treating their country --- oh, say.... Mexico.... Iraq.... Yemen.... well you know the list.

Imagine if NaziCons had to solely foot the bill for eight years of Obama's Secret Service protection.

 

[tycho1572]

Nick Wing at the Huffington Post.

 

[tycho1572]

You people will swallow anything a leftist chooses to serve up. lol

 

[Pogo]

You people will swallow anything a leftist chooses to serve up. lol

Oh? You have different numbers?

Or did you just trot in to whinny "nay nay"?

 

[Pogo]

Rump's continuous jaunts to Florida are also depressing the local economy there, with all the security restrictions. Especially air travel.

That's not something the SS has to deal with but it is something the locals and the local economy do. So kiss those votes buh-bye.

 

[The Original Tree]

From one Native American to another (Cherokee) you are a Phucking embrassing shill for a party that has done nothing but abuse and enslave our people and make them dependent on The White Man for handouts.

To see you daily get on your hands and knees and fellate the very people who forced us to march on The Trail of Tears disgust me.

There is nothing free or noble about an Uncle Tom Indian cashing a Government Check and telling his brothers to wallow in laziness and dependency all the while defending the very people who enslaved him.

You slither on the ground like a snake, and you skulk about in the shadows like a Coyote stealing from his own people.

Shame is your blanket and dead embers, your only warmth. You should hang your head in shame but you lift it up in arrogance only to be blinded by the sun.

Your path is as twisted as your heart and there is no light before you to guide you and prevent you from dashing your hard head upon the stones.

Thinking you are wise, you have become a babbling fool with a forked tongue, and crooked words are only spoken from the mouth of foul waters and a man with a foul spirit will not prosper nor walk among the tall oaks and green pastures in the next life.

The agency recently asked for $60 million more, but was told “no.”

President Donald Trump’s frequent travel, large family and unusual living situation are apparently weighing heavily on the Secret Service’s budget.

The agency recently requested an additional $60 million in spending for fiscal year 2018, according to a Washington Post report on Tuesday. Nearly $27 million of that was to be earmarked for security at the president’s private residence at Trump Tower in New York, where first lady Melania Trump lives with their 11-year-old son. The Secret Service also said it needed another $33 million to cover travel costs incurred by “the president, vice president and other visiting heads of state.”

The Office of Management and Budget rejected the request, a source told the Post, which could potentially force the Secret Service to scale back on other operations, like investigations into cyber hacking, counterfeit currency, financial crimes or missing and exploited minors.

The Post report comes amid questions about the president’s regular weekend jaunts to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Trump has made at least five trips to the “Southern White House” since his inauguration, each time costing taxpayers an estimated $3 million or more.

Providing Secret Service details for the first lady and the rest of Trump’s family, including his four adult sons and daughters, has also led to mounting costs. Although this level of protection is standard for the first family, the specific needs of Trump’s older children have attracted scrutiny.

In February, for example, Eric Trump flew to Uruguay to promote the Trump Organization. The trip ended up costing taxpayers nearly $90,000 in hotel bills for the Secret Service agents who accompanied him, leading to renewed criticism of how the president’s business interests intertwine with government functions.

More: Secret Service Can’t Afford The Trump Family’s Lifestyle

This is unconscionable! Trump is costing American taxpayers a fortune!

 

[Pogo]

From one Native American to another (Cherokee) you are a Phucking embrassing shill for a party that has done nothing abuse and enslave our people and make them dependent on The White Man for handouts.

To see you daily get on your hands and knees and fellate the very people who forced us to march on The Trail of Tears disgust me.

There is nothing free or noble about an Uncle Tom Indian cashing a Government Check and telling his brothers to wallow in laziness and dependency all the while defending the very people who enslaved him.

You slither on the ground like a snake, and you skulk about in the shadows like a Coyote stealing from his own people.

Shame is your blanket and dead embers, your only warmth. You should hang your head in shame but you lift it up in arrogance only to be blinded by the sun.

Your path is as twisted as your heart and there is no light before you to guide you and prevent you from dashing your hard head upon the stones.

Thinking you are wise, you have become a babbling fool with a forked tongue, and crooked words are only spoken from the mouth of foul waters.

The agency recently asked for $60 million more, but was told “no.”

President Donald Trump’s frequent travel, large family and unusual living situation are apparently weighing heavily on the Secret Service’s budget.

The agency recently requested an additional $60 million in spending for fiscal year 2018, according to a Washington Post report on Tuesday. Nearly $27 million of that was to be earmarked for security at the president’s private residence at Trump Tower in New York, where first lady Melania Trump lives with their 11-year-old son. The Secret Service also said it needed another $33 million to cover travel costs incurred by “the president, vice president and other visiting heads of state.”

The Office of Management and Budget rejected the request, a source told the Post, which could potentially force the Secret Service to scale back on other operations, like investigations into cyber hacking, counterfeit currency, financial crimes or missing and exploited minors.

The Post report comes amid questions about the president’s regular weekend jaunts to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Trump has made at least five trips to the “Southern White House” since his inauguration, each time costing taxpayers an estimated $3 million or more.

Providing Secret Service details for the first lady and the rest of Trump’s family, including his four adult sons and daughters, has also led to mounting costs. Although this level of protection is standard for the first family, the specific needs of Trump’s older children have attracted scrutiny.

In February, for example, Eric Trump flew to Uruguay to promote the Trump Organization. The trip ended up costing taxpayers nearly $90,000 in hotel bills for the Secret Service agents who accompanied him, leading to renewed criticism of how the president’s business interests intertwine with government functions.

More: Secret Service Can’t Afford The Trump Family’s Lifestyle

This is unconscionable! Trump is costing American taxpayers a fortune!

Where do you see anything about "political parties" in this thread, Evelyn Wood?

Read much?

And btw learn how the quote feature works.

 

[Siete]

The Manhattan contingent alone (Melania and Baron) costs half a million a DAY. Just because they don't want to live in the House the taxpayers already provide.

That's 182.5 million a year. Just for that, and it doesn't include the POTUS, any of his adult children, or Mar-a-Yugo.

Mar a Yugo ... good one !

 

[Pogo]

The Manhattan contingent alone (Melania and Baron) costs half a million a DAY. Just because they don't want to live in the House the taxpayers already provide.

That's 182.5 million a year. Just for that, and it doesn't include the POTUS, any of his adult children, or Mar-a-Yugo.

Mar a Yugo ... good one !

Meh --- I'm still workin' on it. Open to suggestions.