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The Trump criminal organization is pushing back against a proposed provision that would require the Secret Service to disclose how much it's spending on presidential travel.
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin is battling with Dem senators in negotiations over legislation that would move the Secret Service back to the Treasury Department, where it was first housed before moving to the DHS.
The legislation is set to include a stipulation that the Secret Service disclose on a semiannual basis the amount being spent on presidential travel for the president and his adult children. “Mnuchin came to me last year with a proposal to move the Secret Service to the Treasury Department,” Sen Feinstein said in a statement. “As part of that effort, I proposed that the cost of presidential travel be included for greater transparency, accountability and oversight associated with protection during travel of presidents and their families.”
Mnuchin agreed to the financial disclosure provision, but like a true Trump sycophant, HOWEVER, he is against the 120-day requirement, and instead only wants the cost of the president’s trips revealed until after the election. 😲
That's like a used car salesman telling you that he will only tell you the past mechanical problems of a car until after you've purchased it from him.
The Secret Service is required to report semiannually the cost of protecting Trump's Children of the Corn, or non-White House residence, the Trump criminal organization failed to do so in either 2016 or 2017. The White House also dodged questions from the Government Accountability Office about the issue for two years, after the GAO sought information on the cost of Trump's travel to Mar-a-Lago.
Trump spent one out of every five days on one his golf course last year. The GAO found that Trump's first four trips to Mar-a-Lago in 2017 cost the Secret Service $1.3 million per trip (and $3.4 million in total government spending), and the Secret Service requested $60 million in additional funding in 2017. Federal charge card expenditures revealed the Secret Service also spent at least $250,000 at Trump properties in just the first five months of Trump's term alone, and the agency has paid a king's ransom for golf carts on Trump's golf outings, spending $588,000 on golf carts since 2017. The GAO report found that Trump's sons Uday and Qusay's travel to Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, and the UAE in 2017 cost the Secret Service $396,000 in total—and they've done plenty of traveling since.
Trump has spent nearly a third of his "presidency" at his properties. The GAO report reports that the Secret Service may have spent as much as $28 million JUST on Trump's trips to Mar-a-Lago by now. But that would be still just a fraction of his total travel costs. President Obama—whom Trump criticized for golfing too much—cost the government $96.9 million over 8 years with his travel, for comparison. So far Trump's golfing has cost American taxpayers more than 102 million dollars in just 3 years. Taxpayers have paid at least 81 million for Trump play on his golf course in FL, 17 million for Trump to play on his golf courses in NJ, 1 million for Trump to play on his golf courses in Los Angeles, and 3 million for Trump to play on his golf course in Scotland. And to add insult to injury, Trump is pocketing millions of taxpayer dollars from accommodations, lodging, and rental fees. The more trips to his properties, the more money he makes.
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