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While I understand security costs, why do we have to pay the bills for their hotel stays, especially when they're for the family business?
Breaking Down All Of The Trump Family's Travel Costs And Lavish Expenditures
President Trump's trips to Mar-A-Lago
Total cost for security in Palm Beach: $3.7 million
Roundtrip flights from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland to West Palm, Florida: $700,000
Overtime for local law enforcement during Trumps trips: $60,000/day
Total golf cart rentals ordered by the Secret Service "for POTUS visit": $35,185
Loss to business due to airport closure: -$30,000/weekend
Keeping the first family in Trump Towers
Request for additional Secret Service funding to secure Trump Towers: $60 million
New York Police Department security costs: $127,000-$146,000/day
"Elevator services" ordered by the Secret Service: $64,000
Air Force One flights to New York City: $180,000/hour
The Trump children's trips around the world with Secret Service
Eric Trumps hotel costs in Uruguay: $97,830
Eric Trumps hotel costs in the U.K. this week: $11,261
Eric Trumps limousine services in Dublin: $4,029.85
Rental ski equipment and clothing for secret service during Ivanka Trump's trip to Aspen: $12,208
Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Tiffany Trumps hotel costs in Vancouver: $53,155
Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trumps hotel costs in Dubai: $16,738
The provided costs don't even include airfare rates for Secret Service agents taking each trek with the Trumps, nor does it include the data on those agents salaries and other expenditures taxpayers may be footing the bill for. The budget was expected to naturally increase based on the size of the Trump family as compared to the size of his predecessors, but critics are concerned the billionaire first family hasnt acknowledged that it's not him paying for his trips, it's the American people.
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-florida-trips-prices-costs-first-family-vacation-capitalism-584551
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)The costs noted don't even mention golf carts, porta-potties or anything.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... "Why am I not welcome at DU?"
Me.
(35,454 posts)What I have to say to them
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... isn't that a shame?
Me.
(35,454 posts)I wonder if they feel it...shame that is
brer cat
(24,402 posts)the Obama's travels, and it was nothing to compare with this! I guess they wouldn't be republicans if they weren't massively hypocritical.
trueblue2007
(17,138 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)to provide golden, gourmet, deluxe bennies & special luxuries for a family of grifters who claim to be "billionaires." Meanwhile, republicans working steadily in secret to slash support for elders, sick people, and homeless, to enable more more more tax cuts for the rich.
How sick is that? How republican is that?
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)courtesy of our tax dollars. The costs keep piling up. How is this ethical?
I blame Reagan for turning the GOP into the party where morality is associated with the rich while the poor are amoral.
oppressedproletarian
(243 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)WTF? Security is one thing - and I think even that is bullshit - but why do our tax dollars go toward putting these people up in style? Why aren't they paying their own way? I really want to know.
NONE of the children are elected officials of the US government and should not be allowed to waste our tax dollars on their business and leisure trips. This just outrages me!
Me.
(35,454 posts)Especially as most of those are business trips and do we fly them on private jets along with an entire detail?
AllyCat
(16,036 posts)They can't exactly send the First Lady down the ski hill without protection.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)were elected to office. Why do we pay for THEM? They are all rich adults who are perfectly capable of paying their own way.
dubyadiprecession
(5,620 posts)can't stay in cheaper lodgings down the street, (like in a motel 6) they have to be in close proximity to the family at all times.
It would be nice if the trump's contributed something to the cost of their protection.
sandensea
(21,530 posts)I just hope someone finds a way to make him pay it all back.
Me.
(35,454 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)either $94 or $98 million
logosoco
(3,208 posts)but they didn't make sure that the younger boy was somewhere where he could see the total eclipse. Maybe he doesn't care much about it, but seeing how excited by grandsons were when it happened, I felt really bad for the little tRump. (maybe I was thinking there might be some hope for him).
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)spending, the gop would have passed numerous bills putting a stop to it. Since they are supposed to be so rich, WHY are taxpayers fotting their extensive bills? Is he trying to bankrupt the country, just like he has done with everything else he has been involved with?
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)We just need to work hard to get him out of office. The crimes will then take care of themselves.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Today with all the Trump news I feel nauseated
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Let's call this what it is. It is theft of our tax dollars.