Additional security for DeVos may cost up to $7.8 million

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Government officials said Friday that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos requires additional security detail due to a threat to her safety and that it may cost up to $7.8 million through September to protect her.

The U.S. Marshals Service said in a statement that a threat assessment was conducted in February and DeVos was put under additional protection. The statement did not provide details on the threat or the number of personnel assigned to her.

The agency said it will be reimbursed $7.78 million from the Education Department for services from February through September.

The Education Department said that's a projected, not a final figure. The move comes amid a proposal by the Trump administration to cut the department's budget by 13 percent.

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/additional-security-for-devos-may-cost-up-to-dollar78-million/ar-BBzxvpk?li=BBnb7Kz

[rpannier]

1. At that rate the whole budget will be for her Majesty's Secret Service

[Warpy]

3. Which she can well afford to provide all by herself

with a discount from her brother.

[DK504]

24. Exactly!

Maybe she will resign since it's getting too hot for incompetence.

[cilla4progress]

2. Paid to her brother?

Blackwater owner?

[susanna]

4. Excellent point. n/t

[Thor_MN]

17. Cost for US Marshalls, plus some "one time" costs that are likely buying shit for her house.

When we finally get rid of that waste of oxygen, I want to see the "one time" costs removed or rendered completely inoperative.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

25. Yep...

... eom.

[riversedge]

5. "to around $1 million per month." This is obscene

Link to tweet

Security for Betsy DeVos Costing Education Dept. Nearly $8M for 8 Months

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/stepped-security-devos-costing-education-dept-nearly-8m-8-months-n744101?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma




News
Apr 7 2017, 10:32 pm ET
Security for Betsy DeVos Costing Education Dept. Nearly $8M for 8 Months

by Safia Samee Ali

The U.S Marshals Service is providing unprecedented protective detail to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, and the added security will be costing her agency almost $1 million per month, the marshals service said Friday.

The stepped up security began in February, following a threat assessment ordered by the U.S. Attorney General, the marshals service said. The agency only said it determined a threat to her safety exists, and did not elaborate.

Under an agreement between the marshals service and the Department of Education, the education department will reimburse the marshals service $7.78 million for security for the nearly eight months from Feb. 13 through September, and the protection will continue for the next four years.

If the current reimbursement rate remains the same, that totals to around $1 million per month.

[teezy]

6. "A threat to her safety"

As in, when 6 activists ran her off outside a DC school, armed with with protest signs?

[elleng]

22. Yes, very POWERFUL protest signs!

[Retrograde]

26. And they contained cutting remarks (n/t)

[riversedge]

7. " the Marshals Service is hiring nearly two dozen people specifically to guard DeVos,"

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/stepped-security-devos-costing-education-dept-nearly-8m-8-months-n744101?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma


.... DeVos' nomination was controversial not only in Congress but by parents and teachers who protested across the nation. She was narrowly confirmed after Vice President Mike Pence broke a 50-50 tie in the Senate for the first time in congressional history.


Previously, members of an in-house security team guard the secretary, and those individuals remain on the payroll but have not been assigned new duties, the Washington Post reported.

Meanwhile, the Marshals Service is hiring nearly two dozen people specifically to guard DeVos, the Washington Post reports.

Related: Parents of Transgender Kids Meet With Education Secretary Betsy DeVos

The Department of Education did not return requests for comment by NBC News Friday. ..............

[dalton99a]

14. This is obscene.

[yuiyoshida]

16. This isn't a Presidency its a royal Dynasty...

The Rich folks are looting all this Nation's Cash.

[dchill]

8. Everyone who voted to confirm her...

should donate their salaries to offset this insanity.

[longship]

9. No amount of security will save her Calvinist predestinationalist soul.

She will tell you that no good deeds will save your miserable soul -- which is why she doesn't believe in good deeds. When one looks at a likely predetermined eternity of torture in the face after death, one takes what one can during life, and fuck everybody else.

And that's what her entire family believes. And half of west Michigan around Grand Rapids and Holland.

They are fucking barking mad. All of them.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. WTF?

Grift grift grift.

If there was such a "threat to safety" then why not resign and go do something else?

[mdbl]

11. What threat?

Mrs Olansky's kindergarten class protesting or what?

[Mc Mike]

12. Naturally, the money comes from the Education Dept budget.

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The g o pee version of normal -- appoint an Ed Secretary so radical that they need a million dollars worth of security. Like we've ever before seen an ancillary cabinet official like her need witness protection levels of bodyguarding.

Why doesn't the bircher freak get her brother to provide some mercs for her 'safety', gratis? The 'threat' sounds like the usual lying b.s. from the repugs, to boot.

[FailureToCommunicate]

13. Gee I wonder how many school lunches that money might have provided.

It's hard to pick which Trump administration monster I hate the most, but she's a leading contender.

[dalton99a]

15. Yep.

[FakeNoose]

18. This is why there's nothing left for Meals on Wheels

[stuffmatters]

30. At over 10M for a full year, that's what 20M school lunches, 200 teachers, nurses...

It's indecent

[Peachhead22]

19. Why?

Why does a Secretary of Education need or deserve any security, much less extra security? I realize she's hated (for good reason). But it's not like she's Sec of State or Defense where if something happened to those people it could cause real problems for the country.

[whistler162]

31. Kindergarteners.... shudder....

They make me shake in my boots and I am only around them when technology goes wrong.... shudder!!!!

[elleng]

20. Oh swell, she's such a valuable commodity!

[Paladin]

21. There's a story or two behind this. Let's hear the details, ASAP. (nt)

[milestogo]

23. She should pay for it herself or step down.

This is ridiculous.

[Retrograde]

27. Because a handful of people yelled at her?

If she can't handle a little criticism, maybe she should do us all a favor and resign.

[QC]

29. You know, that was probably the first time in her 59 years

that someone disagreed with her to her face.

That's gotta be traumatic.

But we shouldn't have to pay a million bucks a month to soothe her hurt feefees.

[llmart]

28. How's that draining the swamp thingy going for you trump voters?

Instead of draining the swamp, they're draining our Treasury into their own pockets.

This disgusts me to no end, in addition to dump going to Florida every weekend.