DeVos' security detail cost taxpayers $24M over 4 years

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Politico

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ security detail has cost taxpayers more than $24 million over the past four years and is projected to cost another $3 million through mid-February, a spokesperson for the U.S. Marshals Service told POLITICO on Tuesday.

That level of security detail is highly unusual. The past four education secretaries have been protected by the Education Department’s own small security force.

“No other cabinet secretaries during the Trump administration has or had this agreement with the USMS,” the spokesperson wrote in an email.

Key context: Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions initially ordered DeVos’ security detail, shortly after the secretary encountered protesters while visiting a D.C. school.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/devos-security-detail-cost-taxpayers-dollar24m-over-4-years/ar-BB1aF0v8?li=BBnb7Kz

[pecosbob]

1. I would make an example of DeVos and Prince were I king for a day

[NonPC]

2. Now Let Amway Pay for It

Either that, or let brother Eric and his team of mercenaries do it for her. She will burn in hell.

[RainCaster]

3. Doesn't that protection detail go away when she leaves office?

Unlike POTUS, I think the protection for cabinet members ends with the job ending.

[Roy Rolling]

4. It's a virtual landmine

No one will remember the squandered million$ like this when Republicans complain about U.S. national debt and budget deficits.

[rickyhall]

5. Hiring Goddamned billionaires cost way more to employ than the rest of us. Whoda thought it?

[Historic NY]

6. Who's going to pay for it when she leaves.?

[Hotler]

7. It cost us more for security when our public servants are an assholes, than,

when they are a genuinely nice, caring person.

[Evolve Dammit]

8. Why this is so important. All the corrupt, malevolent, whack-a-doodle appointees and syncopates.

That go along with the whole Cult 45 "package."

[calimary]

9. Yep. Exactly.

[Stargleamer]

10. Betsy DeVos: there to remind us yet again that we live. . .

not only in a plutocracy, and a kakistocracy, but a kleptocracy as well.