Public Fumes As Donald Trumps Mar-A-Lago Trips Cost More Than Meals On Wheels

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March 18, 2017


Public Fumes As Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Trips Cost More Than Meals On Wheels

http://www.inquisitr.com/4069743/public-fumes-as-donald-trumps-mar-a-lago-trips-cost-more-than-meals-on-wheels/


Christine Beswick

In a budget titled “America First: Blueprint To Make America Great Again,But,” Donald Trump proposed gutting funding to programs that reduce homelessness and feed the elderly and children. Donald Trump then booked his Mar-a-Lago trip for this weekend, a trip that would cost taxpayers millions federally, and hundreds of thousands municipally, per visit, in Palm Beach. The public is not happy.

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The Independent reports that the most recent budget proposed by the Trump Administration includes cuts to programs that fund the arts, homelessness projects, access to higher education for the less fortunate, and agencies such as Meals on Wheels.

The National Endowment for the Arts receives $152 million a year, the US Interagency Council for Homelessness receives $4 million a year, the Senior Community Service Employment Program receives $434 million a year, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars receives $11 million a year. All of these are on the chopping block to either gut completely or in part.

The Department of Health and Human Services is also targeted for a slash of 17.2 percent of federal funding, and this is the department that funds Meals on Wheels. The total of all of these funding cuts is over $600 million dollars.

To keep Melania Trump housed in Trump Tower as opposed to the White House costs American taxpayers $500 thousand dollars daily, up to over $180 million a year if she stays there all year. Donald Trump spent the first 11 of his first 33 days in office at his Palm Beach, Florida, Mar-a-Lago resort, reports CBS News. He is there again this weekend.

The White House will not release the costs of those triHowever,estimating how much it cost President Obama to attend Florida visits during his terms, each visit reportedly costs taxpayers approximately $3 million dollars. With four visits already under his belt, Donald Trump has already cost taxpayers $12 million. This weekend’s visit is his fifth...............

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[Rollo]

1. Let them eat diamonds...

[Gothmog]

2. Trump is fun to laugh at

[Freethinker65]

3. "Trump First: Blueprint to make Trump Rich Again"

[LakeArenal]

4. Let them eat dead people...

[dalton99a]

5. Kick.

[JudyM]

6. What is Melania reading... the NY Post? We are spending $500k a DAY on her?

[yuiyoshida]

7. ITS totally disgusting...

When Obama was in office he got us financially on track, and out from under debt of George. W. Bush. Now, it looks like this PIG and his Republicans are going to go into the Nation's Treasury and spend all the money this nation has, so he and his cronies can end up as rich as Putin. Its like giving the keys of the banking Corporation over to petty Bank Robbers and giving them all the money they could ever want or need.

We are being fleeced and meanwhile poor people and elderly are being pissed on.