NEW SECRET SERVICE COSTS FOR TRUMP AT MAR-A-LAGO REVEALED

[herding cats]

Source: Newsweek

And you thought your New Year’s Eve was pricey.

The Secret Service spent $26,457.28 to rent lights, generators, tables and tents from companies near President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, signing contracts that all ended early in the new year.

Five lease contracts between three Palm Beach companies—C3 Consulting Group, Grimes Events & Party Tents and United Rentals—and the government agency charged with protecting the president ended January 2, according to records from the Federal Procurement Data System. A sixth contract ended January 1.

"Trump's New Year's Eve party was the largest event of his Mar-a-Lago vacation and the only one to require this kind of spending by Secret Service," said Harrell Kirstein, a spokesman for the progressive American Bridge 21st Century political action committee, which shared the spending records with Newsweek.





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[GP6971]

1. And no doubt

they are the "preferred" vendors.

[herding cats]

2. Oh, Im sure.

Kicking it back to those he’s indebted to.

[brer cat]

3. He will bankrupt this country

if he hangs around much longer.

Trump’s 2017 travel costs topped $6 million for Mar-a-Lago alone, according to a Wall Street Journal tally. That included just airfare, not the cost of protection from the Secret Service, which received congressional approval to raise its cap on overtime and salaries after the first family’s travel schedule drained the agency’s budget early.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Correction: Ongoing American Taxpayers' cost for

tRump visits to Mar A Lago.

[Gothmog]

5. If there is a govt shutdown, then can we stop paying for this?

[forgotmylogin]

6. We need to put the President on White House arrest.

Get an anklet on him and make him stay on grounds. Invisible fence. The President's residence is perfectly capable of throwing a swanky party and secret service is already on the property by default.

Add in the electric shock option to his anklet and trigger it via a coin-slot on Pennsylvania Ave and we'll fix the national debt. This outlay for tech will pay for itself.

[Scarsdale]

7. Meanwhile, as a senior citizen

my Social Security was increased by $11 a month. Some got even less. Is this a great country, or what?

[Sunlei]

8. same TENT rent business for " Muammar Gaddafi's tent"? Donalds old BEST friend?

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Sep 22, 2009 - Libyan leader pitches his tent on an estate belonging to Donald Trump in suburban New York, reports say.