{"id":1842,"date":"2017-09-20T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/20\/trump-to-spend-76th-day-at-one-of-his-properties-wasting-taxpayer-dollars\/"},"modified":"2017-09-20T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T20:27:00","slug":"trump-to-spend-76th-day-at-one-of-his-properties-wasting-taxpayer-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-to-spend-76th-day-at-one-of-his-properties-wasting-taxpayer-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to Spend 76th Day at One of His Properties, Wasting Taxpayer Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This weekend Trump will spend time at his Bedminster golf course and Trump Tower. He has already spent 75 days at Trump-owned properties and 58 days at his golf courses over his presidency, wasting millions of taxpayer dollars. On top of that, Trump’s trip will be burdensome for local residents – as Trump himself admitted<\/span>.<\/span> <\/p>\n

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Trump previously said that he would not stay in Manhattan because it would be so disruptive.<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump: “Well, this isn’t really for me a trip. You know<\/span>, I stay out of Manhattan because it’s so disruptive to go to Manhattan<\/strong><\/span>.” [Trump Remarks After National Security Briefing, Bedminster NJ, 8\/11\/17]<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump: “But <\/span>I stay out because it’s so disruptive<\/span><\/strong>. You know, all of my life—I mean my adult life because I grew up in Queens, not in Manhattan. But, during the time that I lived in Manhattan, <\/span>whenever a president came in, it was very disruptive. And I think I’m probably more disruptive than any of them<\/span><\/strong>.” [Trump Remarks After National Security Briefing, Bedminster NJ, 8\/11\/17]<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump’s frequent trips to multiple Trump-owned properties and Trump’s jet-setting family has left the Secret Service out of money, and led them to request even more taxpayer dollars to pay their overworked agents.<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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USA Today<\/span><\/a>: “<\/span>The Secret Service can no longer afford to pay hundreds of agents it needs to carry out an expanded protective mission<\/span><\/strong> – in large part due to the sheer size of President Trump's family and efforts necessary to secure their multiple residences up and down the East Coast. […] The compensation crunch is so serious that the director has begun discussions with key lawmakers to raise the combined salary and overtime cap for agents, from $160,000 per year to $187,000 for at least the duration of Trump's first term.”<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump’s trips to Bedminster are burdensome for residents and businesses of the small New Jersey town.<\/span>  <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Politico<\/span><\/a>: “<\/strong><\/span>New Jersey gives Trump a chilly reception”<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Reuters<\/span><\/a>: “As Bedminster prepared this week for the president's latest trip to the 600-acre (240-hectare) private club, a 17-day stay that is his first extended vacation in office, <\/span>some of the town's 8,000 residents expressed frustration at the security protocols, road closures and daily disruption<\/span><\/strong> that will begin with his arrival on Friday.” <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Associated Press<\/span><\/a>: “Small airports and aviation-related businesses near Trump's properties in Florida and New Jersey <\/span>have lost out on hundreds of thousands of dollars in business already this year<\/span><\/strong>. And they have no recourse other than to appeal to the Secret Service, which oversees presidential security.”<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump’s trips to his properties have already cost taxpayers millions of dollars and his recent Bedminster vacation cost an estimated $3.2 million alone, according to one study.<\/span>  <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Center for American Progress<\/span><\/a>: “Trump's August Bedminster trip costs an estimated <\/span>$3,246,698.06<\/span><\/strong>, which includes the same roundtrip flight cost as the <\/span>three day<\/span> trip, as well as Bedminster township costs, DOD and DHS per diems costs, and Secret Service staffing costs all adjusted for an 18 day trip if that's possible.” <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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USA Today<\/span><\/a>: “Trump's frequent visits to his ‘winter White House’ and ‘summer White House’ are especially challenging for the agency, which must maintain a regular security infrastructure at each – while still allowing access to paying members and guests.  Always costly in manpower and equipment, <\/span>the president's jaunts to Mar-a-Lago are estimated to cost at least $3 million each<\/span><\/strong>, based on a General Accounting Office estimate for similar travel by former President Obama.”<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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USA Today<\/span><\/a>: “The Feb. 5 flight to Houston was part of more than <\/span>$3.5 million<\/span><\/strong> in White House travel that Judicial Watch has reviewed so far under the Freedom of Information Act since the Trump administration took office Jan. 20.” <\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Palm Beach Post<\/span><\/a>: “While the expenses mentioned in the two letters add up to $3.7 million, sheriff’s spokeswoman Teri <\/span>Barbera<\/span> said Tuesday that PBSO’s Trump-related overtime costs now stand at <\/span>$4.5 million<\/span><\/strong>.”<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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USA Today<\/span><\/a>: <\/span>“<\/span>The Secret Service has spent some <\/span>$60,000<\/strong> <\/span>on golf cart rentals alone this year to protect Trump at both Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster.”<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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