Protecting Trump means unprecedented bill for taxpayers

Posted by | December 3, 2016 11:30 | Filed under: Politics

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The Secret Service faces a massive effort that will cost taxpayers.

The Secret Service renting a floor or two of Trump Tower for as much as $3 million a year? Not happening, the agency says. New York City paying a million dollars a day to protect the first family? “Inaccurate and unconfirmed,” said a spokesman for Mayor Bill De Blasio.

Yet local and federal law enforcement officials concede the costs for securing the immediate and extended First Family-elect in target-rich New York City are enormous. Melania Trump’s decision to stay with 10-year-old Barron at the family’s triplex penthouse means the skyscraper will need permanent new fortifications, and plans to protect Trump’s four adult children will force an already short-staffed agency ramp up its ranks.

“Operating in Manhattan is expensive, and the fact that the Secret Service has to pay, by law, for office space on protectees’ residences, plane tickets on protectees’ planes, there’s a dollar figure that I don’t think you can really estimate right now,” said Donald Mihalek, head of the Secret Service division of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association.

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12 responses to Protecting Trump means unprecedented bill for taxpayers

  1. Buford2k11 December 3rd, 2016 at 11:32

    oh, my goodness…the Odious just got worse…Can we refuse to pay? like he does?

  2. mea_mark December 3rd, 2016 at 11:47

    I wonder how many reasons the electoral college is going to need to know that the orange one is going to be very bad for the country?

    • The Original Just Me December 4th, 2016 at 10:24

      It is called; ” Wearing Blinders ! “

  3. oldfart December 3rd, 2016 at 11:57

    Fiscal responsibility ???…ANYONE ???

  4. arc99 December 3rd, 2016 at 12:06

    naturally, if Mrs.Obama had decided to live in Chicago and required the taxpayers to retrofit their residence there, the usual suspects would have screamed with outrage at her attitude

    but the hypocrites who whined about Michelle Obama will justify every penny spent on the Trump family, and you all know who you are. so with regards, every single one of you can bleep my bleepin bleep… ..

  5. ohpaleasegivemeabreak December 3rd, 2016 at 12:41

    He’s a republican and therefore anything he does is holy and perfect.

    But let Obama play a round of golf and the old chitorina hits the fan for weeks.

  6. robert December 3rd, 2016 at 12:54

    I have no idea Why DeBlasio is denying the extra expense when obviously the SS isn’t going to commute to nyc with shift changes

    • Foundryman December 3rd, 2016 at 13:10

      DeBlasio and NY should kick him out, pass a law saying they will not absorb any costs to protecting any federal elected person or their family. They should tell him to move to a compound with a bunker on it.

      • robert December 3rd, 2016 at 13:25

        This has extortion written all over it If trump wants his wife a child to live in another city it’s at his expense Security included !

  7. Jungle_Bhoy December 3rd, 2016 at 13:32

    Why doesn’t he go to one of the flyover states and let the toothless morons who voted for him there pay his vanity expenses.

  8. amersham1046 December 3rd, 2016 at 17:42

    Don’t worry Trump can afford it–
    What, the taxpayers pick up all the bills , well Donald thanks you all

  9. The Original Just Me December 4th, 2016 at 10:22

    but, But, BUT !!! President Obama went Golfing AND on Vacation.

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