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Tanuki

(14,920 posts)
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 02:01 PM Jun 2019

Detained kids could live in Trump Hotel suite for less money than the concentration camps charge

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/detained-kids-could-live-in-trump-hotel-suite-for-less-than-tent-city-2018-6

"The migrant children being detained away from their parents in tent cities could be put up in a suite at one of President Donald Trump's hotels at a rate lower than what the US government is reportedly spending on them.

According to NBC News, it costs the Department of Health and Human Services $775 per person per night on average to house detained children in the temporary shelters near the US border.

Business Insider found several suites at Trump hotels advertising rates lower than that, including a junior suite in the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, offered at $757 before taxes and fees for the night of June 23 ($869.04 including taxes and fees).

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The Washington junior suites have a king-size bed with Trump-branded linen, a separate seating area with a 55-inch flat-screen TV, an "executive desk," and a chandelier. The bathrooms have two tubs, one of which is lined with marble, and come with high-end toiletries."....(more)
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Detained kids could live in Trump Hotel suite for less money than the concentration camps charge (Original Post) Tanuki Jun 2019 OP
So Who Is Raking In Ill Gotten Gains? Me. Jun 2019 #1
Private contractors with ex-congressmen and ex-military on their corporate boards (john kelly) happyaccident Jun 2019 #2
 

happyaccident

(136 posts)
2. Private contractors with ex-congressmen and ex-military on their corporate boards (john kelly)
Tue Jun 25, 2019, 02:16 PM
Jun 2019

I wonder what's going on with the AOC-ted cruz anti-lobby bill?

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