(May 9, 2017 at 9:29 am)Tiberius Wrote: Why are we protecting him? Because for better or worse he's the President. I don't agree with much of what he says or does but I respect the office he holds enough to think that whomever holds it should be protected.
Quote:the total for Trump's first 100 days was at least $30 million. By comparison, the conservative think tank Judicial Watch found that costs for President Barack Obama and his much smaller family averaged $12 million a year.
In the federal budget compromise reached last week, Congress allocated the Secret Service an additional $13 million to cover unanticipated overtime for its agents. It also set aside an extra $61 million to reimburse New York and Palm Beach for some of their expenses incurred since the election to protect the first family.
$74 million is a metric fuckton of money.... for a country which always claims it is broke....until it is time to cut taxes on billionaires!
