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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 08:02 AM Aug 2017

Trump's lavish travel costs leave Secret Service too "tapped out" to pay agents

Trump’s lavish travel costs leave Secret Service too ‘tapped out’ to pay agents



http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/trumps-lavish-travel-costs-leave-secret-service-too-tapped-out-to-pay-agents/

USA Today reports that “the Secret Service can no longer afford to pay hundreds of agents it needs to carry out an expanded protective mission – 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.”

Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex” Alles tells USA Today that more than 1,000 of his agents have already hit federally mandated caps for salary and overtime allowances, as they have had to expend significantly more time and resources protecting assorted Trump properties.

In addition to protecting Trump during his weekend jaunts to Mar-a-Lago and his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, the Secret Service also must protect the Trump children during their overseas business trips.

“The president has a large family, and our responsibility is required in law,” Alles explains to USA Today. “I can’t change that. I have no flexibility.”
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Trump's lavish travel costs leave Secret Service too "tapped out" to pay agents (Original Post) Miles Archer Aug 2017 OP
Can't we just not build a single plane and pay for the Secret Service for the next hundred years? Not Ruth Aug 2017 #1
Looking at that photo madokie Aug 2017 #2
All I see is that hair Heartstrings Aug 2017 #3
I've said before and I'll say again madokie Aug 2017 #4
Clairol "Sheer Urine". forgotmylogin Aug 2017 #9
I see a narcissistic fat fuck with clown hair. n/t LudwigPastorius Aug 2017 #7
Auric Goldfinger Aviation Pro Aug 2017 #5
Well since they are going to apparently let him slide on the emoluments MGKrebs Aug 2017 #6
Fucking grifters - and don't forget malaise Aug 2017 #8
The tRump "boys" Scarsdale Aug 2017 #10
 

Not Ruth

(3,613 posts)
1. Can't we just not build a single plane and pay for the Secret Service for the next hundred years?
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 08:11 AM
Aug 2017

It is so simple.

forgotmylogin

(7,528 posts)
9. Clairol "Sheer Urine".
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 11:00 AM
Aug 2017

He thinks he's still this:

But the only way to make white or gray hair look blond is lots of yellow tint. That blonde is for young children, natural adults' hair darkens as we age.

This blond is hard to dye to.


He needs a haircut because he's a grown up, and if he's going to dye, he should go with a grown-up color.

MGKrebs

(8,138 posts)
6. Well since they are going to apparently let him slide on the emoluments
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 10:39 AM
Aug 2017

and business conflicts, then in return he should pay for the extra SS costs. Only fair.

malaise

(268,998 posts)
8. Fucking grifters - and don't forget
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 10:55 AM
Aug 2017

they were paying the Cons to have an office in the Tower of corruption and collusion

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
10. The tRump "boys"
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 11:04 AM
Aug 2017

Beavis and Butthead should pay for their own security, they were not elected to any office. First lady/wfe Ivanka should go home and raise her own kids since she does nothing constructive in the WH. They claimed "money is pouring in from Russia" so use it for protection. What other president had their adult (non working) family members costing taxpayers this much? tRump is the most useless president in this country's history, yet the most costly. Laws will have to be changed to avoid another gop catastrophe like this clown. I imagine Maleria's parents (communists) are also covered by the SS.

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