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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"This country cannot feed our veterans or elderly because Trump has 3 residences to protect."
David Yankovich?Verified account @DavidYankovich 7h7 hours ago
The White House should just come out and say; "This country cannot feed our veterans or elderly because Trump has 3 residences to protect."
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riversedge
(70,285 posts)anyone know anything about this #HR1244
David Yankovich?Verified account @DavidYankovich 7h7 hours ago
Replying to @DavidYankovich
But the truly sad thing is that while his residences are being protected, he is making millions off of it. While others strarve, he profits.
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David Yankovich?Verified account @DavidYankovich 6h6 hours ago
Starve* hate typos.
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HonestyinGov? @HnstyNgov 5h5 hours ago
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BTW There is a Law passed by #Congress #HR1244 regarding $ spent on POTUS property. WHO will ENFORCE it? #MaraLago
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pamela the patriot? @PatriotPamela 3h3 hours ago
well isn't that interesting? Anyone left w/testicles in Congress besides Maxine Waters?
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Carol Anne Mann? @CarolMann1955 7h7 hours ago
Replying to @DavidYankovich @ManMet80
@realDonaldTrump 1)STOP going 2 Mar-a-Lago 2)MOVE Melania & Barron to WH 3)WH is a beautiful historic home 4)Camp David is perk not M-A-Lago
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Ellen Ray? @ellenrayrx 5h5 hours ago
Excellent point! Has anyone in this admin been to Camp David??
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KewlKat
(5,624 posts)An Act -
To establish procedures and regulations for certain protective services provided by the United States Secret Service.
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembledThat this Act may Presidential be cited as the "Presidential Protection Assistance Act of 1976".
Protection Assistance Act
SEC. 3. (a) Each protectee may designate one non-governmental
Non-property to be fully secured by the Secret Service on a permanent
governmental basis.
(b) A protectee may thereafter designate a different non-Govern
mental property in lieu of the non-Governmental property previously
designated under subsection (a) (hereinafter in this Act referred to
as the "previously designated property" as the one non-Governmen-
tal property to be fully secured by the Secret Service on a permanent
basis under subsection (a). Thereafter, any expenditures by the Secret
Service to maintain a permanent guard detail or for permanent facili-
ties, equipment, and services to secure the non-Governmental property
previou'^ly designated under subsection (a) shall be subject to the
limitations imposed under section 4.
(c) For the purposes of this section, where two or more protectees
share the same domicile, such protectees shall be deemed a single
protectee.
SEC. 4. Expenditures by the Secret Service for maintaining a per-
manent guard detail and for permanent facilities, equipment, and
services to secure any non-Governmental property in addition to the
one non-Governmental property designated by each protectee under
subsection 3(a) or 3(b) may not exceed a cumulative total of $10,000
at each such additional non-Governmental property, unless expendi-
tures in excess of that amount are specifically approved by resolutions
adopted by the Committees on Appropriations of the House and
Senate, respectively.
SEC. 5. (a) All improvements and other items acquired by the
Federal Government and used for the purpose of securing any non-
Governmental property in the performance of the duties of the Secret
Service shall be the property of the United States.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)may not exceed a cumulative total of $10,000
at each such additional non-Governmental property, unless expendi-
tures in excess of that amount are specifically approved by resolutions
adopted by the Committees on Appropriations of the House and
Senate, respectively.
When we take back congress in 2018, it's bye bye secret service. Duck those bullets yourself, Li'l Donnie.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)security and loss of income because of the circus when he's in town.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)They just see it as part of the price of selling their souls to Satan to be in power. The thing about Satan, though, is he likes to collect souls sooner rather than later.
I wish there were some mechanism to force Li'l Donnie to pay for extra expenses out of his own pocket. Barring that, cut the rethug senators' pay checks by two thirds until the difference is made up. Can you imagine the outcry if the SC decided to garnish the rethug party's wages?!
tikka
(762 posts)A lot depends on the definition of protectee, the president etc is classified a protectee and his/her family is classified a protectees. The question is can each family member (protectee) claim permanent coverage?
I guess the cretin sons and jarvanka get this benefit.
It there a permanent detail at mar-a-lago or is it just his traveling protection team?
Maeve
(42,287 posts)tRump said it's interesting for about 10 minutes. And so he doesn't go there.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Republicans show no honor
brer cat
(24,592 posts)looking for new business opportunities to exploit with full SS protection. It's obscene to spend this kind of money while slashing budgets for basic safety net protections. If the Obama's had pulled anything remotely like this, the republicans would have been screaming. They couldn't even take vacations in Hawaii without the deplorables erupting in outrage.
Initech
(100,099 posts)They've reached an all time new low in this administration. They are literally doing everything they accused Obama of doing and getting away with it. Their hypocrisy and incompetence has never been more clear than it is now. They're going to burn this country to the ground and be proud of it. They can't say they love America when they really hate it and want it destroyed.
Initech
(100,099 posts)Fuck these people.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)But not when cutting taxes for the wealthy and spending as much on the military as the rest of the world combined.
And even if we were taking care of all our citizens, his taxpayer-funded self-promotion is just grotesque.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)an allowance and cutoff their flying privileges. Just imagine if HRC had become president and was flying all over hell's whole earth. The redumbliCONs would be whining, pissing, moaning and groaning to no end.
Cha
(297,528 posts)selfish a$$ now?
NoMoreRepugs
(9,454 posts)Repug voters love to shoot themselves in the foot