Secret Service to Run Out of Money to Protect Trump

By Jeralyn, Section Trump Administration
Posted on Mon Aug 21, 2017 at 02:55:36 PM EST
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Donald Trump and his family's travel and vacation expenses will result in 1,100 Secret Service agents working overtime this year, and the Secret Service today said it will run out of money November 30.

The spending limits are supposed to last through December, but the cost of protecting the president and members of the extended first family, who have traveled extensively for business and vacations, has strained the Secret Service, local governments and at least one other federal agency, the Coast Guard.

Presidential travel for Trump and the first lady — who fly to their oceanfront Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., and to their golf club in Bedminster, N.J., on many weekends — has added costs for taxpayers and complications for the government. The Secret Service also must provide protection for Trump’s four adult children.

The Secret Service is protecting more people than it did under Obama:

The Secret Service now protects 42 people around the clock, 11 more than it did under Obama. The Trump protection number includes 18 members of the president’s family.

The most objectionable expense I think (besides Melania and Barron staying at Trump Tower for five4 months) is this:

Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Jr. traveled this year to the United Arab Emirates for business with their Secret Service details in tow, attending the grand opening of a Trump-brand golf resort in the “Beverly Hills of Dubai” 8,000 miles from the United States, for example.

Then there was Eric's trip to the Dominican Republic to resurrect another hotel deal that had ended in lawsuits, and his trip to Uruguay.

The Secret Service wants an extra $60 million next year to protect the Trump entourage.

Nearly half the additional money, $26.8 million, would pay to protect President Trump’s family and private home in New York’s Trump Tower.

Not only does Trump's approval rating continue to tank (it's now at 35%, the lowest point since he got a desk in the oval office, he's bleeding us dry.