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In Trump’s first four trips to Mar-a-Lago in 2017, the Secret Service alone spent about $1.3 million on each visit, and for just one month in 2017, Trump’s travel costs totaled $13.6 million ...
After Trump extended Secret Service protection to his four adult children, they cost taxpayers $140,975.14 in the four weeks after he left office.
During Donald Trump’s presidency, Trump hotels charged the Secret Service nightly rates as high as $1,185 per room, more than five times the government rate.
Donald Trump cost taxpayers $1.7 million providing his adult children and three officials with Secret Service protection after he left office.
“That’s the excuse you give? If he were president you’d protect him better?” said U.S. Rep. Carlos Gimenez. “That’s inexcusable.”
The United States Secret Service was already confronting a period of turmoil after a 20-year-old Pennsylvanian made an attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life this summer.
[2] When the Former Presidents Act took effect in 1958, there were two living former presidents: Herbert Hoover and Harry S. Truman. Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first president to fall under the act upon leaving office. The original act provided for lifetime Secret Service protection for former presidents. In 1994, protection was reduced to ...
Government agencies are expensive, incompetent, and overreaching. The Secret Service is no exception.