Paying for Trump’s family to live in NYC costs $187m per year. Not enough rooms in the White House?
Trump’s trips to Florida have cost $10m in the first month. Obama travel cost $97m over eight years. Gotta love paying for a billionaire’s weekly vacations
I don’t have a problem with the costs associated with NYC as long as Melania and Barron move to the WH once school is over, but the weekly trips to FL are excessive.
On the one hand, 187m/year is nothing in the grand scheme of things, and the secret service budget is something like 8 times that much, so this isn’t the most enormous increase, and the secret service has always protected the properties of the president. If he could figure some shit out and get an extra 1% in growth, or decrease wasteful spending in some areas, it could be well worth it.
On the other hand, it really bothers me that trump is being so easy with taxpayer money, and I’m not surprised at all that he would be. I get the impression that he’s going to try to wring the american people dry of as much money as he can get from them during his time in office. And I don’t see him as being wise enough, or with the proclivity, or as having the necessary conditions and tools, to substantially better the country.