Texas authorities won't ask Trump campaign to pay security costs for visit

[TexasTowelie]

FORT WORTH, Texas - President Donald Trump's recent North Texas visit required hundreds of law enforcers to team with Secret Service to control crowds, redirect traffic, provide security and more.

But unlike in some other communities where officials billed the president's campaign for security costs, police and sheriff officials in Johnson County, Fort Worth and Dallas say they won't send Trump a bill.

"We needed to provide security and do whatever was necessary to protect" Trump, Johnson County Sheriff Deputy Aaron Pitts said. "This was a presidential visit."

Officials in Albuquerque, N.M., recently sent the president's campaign an invoice for costs related to his visit. Other cities that have done the same for visits, mainly to cover police-related costs, include El Paso, Texas; Green Bay, Wis.; and Erie, Pa. A dozen cities say the president's campaign has left unpaid bills for rallies in their communities that now have a combined total of more than $1 million.

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[BuffaloJackalope]

1. Must be that Republican "fiscal responsibility" that I've hard so much about.

[badhair77]

2. They are not Presidential visits; they are clearly campaign rallies.

The campaign should pay.