NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's four trips to his Mar-a-Lago resort in early 2017 cost taxpayers nearly $14 million, a watchdog report Tuesday said.
Trump is the National Emergency #TaxpayerScam
It actually cost more than $3.4 Million per trip because Trump won’t release the information. And then there’s the issue of Trump working 40% of the time while being paid as a full-time employee by YOU — the American Taxpayer.
The Government Accountability Office said travel and accommodations, Secret Service expenses, deployment of bomb-sniffing dogs and other costs for the trips between February 3 and March 5 in 2017 tallied to $13.6 million. About $60,000 of the tab went directly to Mar-a-Lago.
The GAO report provides one of the clearest pictures yet of the costs of the president's travel, and how much of that money goes back to his own properties.
The GAO report was requested by Democratic members of Congress, including California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings.
The nonpartisan research group for Congress also found that Secret Service costs for three trips abroad by Trump’s two adult sons and their spouses in early 2017 ran to $396,000.
Who else was there? #TrumpSWAMP
The GAO also didn’t include costs incurred by officials of the Executive Office of the President because the White House did not respond to a request for the data.
“This is not a presidential vacation, but an official trip that provides invaluable free publicity to his business.”, Noah Bookbinder CREW @CREWcrew