Secret Service asked for $60 million extra for Trump-era travel and protection, documents show

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Drew Harwell and Amy Brittain March 22 at 10:56 AM

The U.S. Secret Service requested $60 million in additional funding for the next year, offering the most precise estimate yet of the escalating costs for travel and protection resulting from the unusually complicated lifestyle of the Trump family, according to internal agency documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

Nearly half of the additional money, $26.8 million, would pay to protect President Trump’s family and private home in New York’s Trump Tower, the documents show, while $33 million would be spent on travel costs incurred by “the president, vice president and other visiting heads of state.”

The documents, part of the Secret Service’s request for the fiscal 2018 budget, reflect the costly surprise facing Secret Service agents tasked with guarding the president’s large and far-flung family, accommodating their ambitious travel schedules and fortifying the three-floor Manhattan penthouse where first lady Melania Trump and her son, Barron, live.

Trump has spent most of his weekends since inauguration at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, and his sons have traveled the world to promote Trump properties with Secret Service agents in tow.

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[cstanleytech]

1. Why are his adult sons getting Secret Service protection? I thought that got cut off once they were

adults? Also why isnt he paying for it himself if he feels they need it, after all he is the wealthiest person to hold the office by far so surely he can afford it.

[tammywammy]

11. They receive protection while he's president.

Once he's no longer president Trump's children will not receive protection.

[jrthin]

2. No! Let the turd

pay for the extra security. He gets the basics, everything else comes out of his pocket.

[volstork]

4. His pockets are empty.

That's the whole point of his presidency, to fill them back up after he pawned himself to putin.

[jrthin]

13. Good Point. nt

[Grammy23]

3. So it's not ok to ask ordinary working folks to pay for anything that benefits

those among us who need help scrounging out a half way decent life, like food, healthcare or safe, affordable housing. It IS ok to pay the grifter family's expenses to jet around the world with personal security escorts at their elbow. tRump can decide he wants some R and R in the Florida sun on a whim and off he goes. Cha-Ching! $$$$. Melania can't stand the thought of spending more than a few hours with the Orange Menace so she and mini-tRump get to stay in NYC on our dime. The outrage this ought to generate is mind boggling, but what do you want to bet his fans find a way to justify this.

[Scarsdale]

5. Replace

this waste of space

[slumcamper]

6. HE'S NOT WORTH IT. n/t

[mpcamb]

16. Make him pay for golf and business trips south. That's a no-brainer.

Be assured: I have no interest in picking up his tab.

[CountAllVotes]

7. ah fuck him

Who gives a flying fuck?

Could fund Meals on Wheels for YEARS with that much money!

FUCK YOU DUMP!

[BumRushDaShow]

8. It would be cheaper to lock 'em all up. nt

[LanternWaste]

9. That increase is 45% of the entire NEA annual budget. The NEA that Trump says is too expensive. nt

That increase is 45% of the entire NEA annual budget. The NEA that Trump says is too expensive.

[dalton99a]

17. +1

[elmac]

10. Waste of money, very sad

so is ammo, the SS should be given squirt guns instead.

[DinahMoeHum]

12. Fuck him and his family. Let the Secret Service WITHDRAW. . .

. . .their security from them and see what happens. Save them and us taxpayers some $$$.

[They_Live]

14. That increase amount will not even cover this whole year

if it's 3 million for each visit to horror-lago.

[Panich52]

15. The Arts are worth much more than SCROTUS

Fiscal fail

[dalton99a]

18. 8,760,000 daily meals for homebound seniors

[Thor_MN]

19. Give Trump 1/4 of the average amount spent on the last four presdential terms, for SS protection,

adjusted for inflation. Next January, release the second quarter. Once the money is gone, any expenses come out of his own pocket.

GOP likes vouchers, let him lead by example.