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CNN: Trump on pace to surpass 8 years of Obama's travel spending in 1 year

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GK86

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Donald Trump's travel to his private club in Florida has cost over an estimated $20 million in his first 80 days as president, putting the president on pace in his first year of office to surpass former President Barack Obama's spending on travel for his entire eight years.

The outsized spending on travel stands in stark relief to Trump's calls for belt tightening across the federal government and the fact that he regularly criticized Obama for costing the American taxpayer money every time he took a trip.

Given variations in each trip, estimating the security costs around a presidential trip is difficult. But a 2016 Government Accountability Office report about a four-day trip Obama took to Florida in 2013 -- one similar to Trump's trips -- found the total cost to the Secret Service and Coast Guard was $3.6 million.

To date, Trump has spent six weekends -- and a total of 21 days -- at Mar-A-Lago, his private Palm Beach club. The total estimated costs for those trips are around $21.6 million.

Obama, by contrast, spent just under $97 million on travel in his eight years as president, according to documents reviewed by Judicial Watch, a conservative government watchdog. These trips included personal trips - including ski trips to Aspen and the Obama's annual family vacation in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts -- and work trips, like a visit to Everglades National Park on Earth Day in 2015.

Trump's frequent weekend travel makes it all but certain the 45th President will surpass Obama's spending in his first term, likely within months.
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Trump's frequent trips to Florida will likely end soon. Businesses in Palm Beach County have been told to expect the president to visit through May, but that Trump will likely stop visiting after that because the weather in the area begins to get stiflingly hot.

Instead, many expect Trump will then start making frequent trips to his penthouse apartment at Trump Tower in New York City -- where first lady Melania Trump has been living for the first part of 2017 as their son, Baron, finishes school -- and his private Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster Township, New Jersey.
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Despite these comments, Trump and his family have proven to be an expensive first family to protect.

Not only does Trump travel frequently, but New York City officials have said it costs between $127,000 to $146,000 a day to protect first lady Melania Trump when she is in New York and the president is not there.

Trump has yet to visit New York as president.

The extensive needs of the Trump family have put strains staffing on the Secret Service, too.

Dozens of agents from field offices across the country, including New York, have been temporarily pulled off their normal criminal investigation duties to work two-week rotations protecting members of the large Trump family, Secret Service officials told CNN.
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Tom Nook Sawyer

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Even more here:
http://www.sbnation.com/golf/2017/3/27/15073086/donald-trump-tweets-barack-obama-golf
 
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Bsigg12

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Run it like a business!

Let the day come to me!

(I never actually worked, I just told someone else to handle it)
 
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Wilsongt

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Remember that Fox News story a few years back falsely claiming an Obama India trip was going to cost $3mil/day and how much the right lost their shit?

Yeah... Where's the outrage now, motherfuckers?
 
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Trump's a friggin Billionaire, why are people still paying for him?

This is the first step towards becoming a Plutocracy.
 
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Spike Spiegel

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If only there was a luxury golf resort somewhere in the nation's capital, close to the White House to cut down on travel expenses. Someone should get on that.

But who..?
 
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mo60

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So trump and his family have already costed taxpayers over $30 millon in 80 days. If I'm being generous it's closer to $33 millon.. I wouldn't be surprised if his family's travel and security expenses costs taxpayers over a $100 millon by the end of the year or by his first year as president.
 
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Spine_Ripper said:
He's been president for 80 DAYS and seemingly hasn't done anything of note for his supporters.

Fucking how
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The dude has a sub 40% approval rating that a bombardment of Syria will hardly lift, and there's nothing the American electorate enjoys more than that. He's not exactly on fire.
 
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Furyous

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These expenses increase to $300,000 per day that Trump visits NYC with his family. If he spends say 4 days a week then we're talking about 1.2 mill per in a week. After this Trump run finishes then no Republican is ever qualified to talk shit about a democratic President's budget of any kind.

We haven't touched on the fact that Trump benefits from all of this as these are his businesses. A sitting President is earning a salary by charging the government to protect him... Let that sink in for a second then look at the budget cuts to education, PBS, and other necessary recipients of government aid.
 
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WedgeX

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People love to argue that "economic arguments" are needed to make supporters of Trump care.

And this happens.

And crickets.
 
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III-V

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Everttime I think of DJT I think of the 'absolutely disgusting' gif.

The man is a complete and utter hypocrite to the nth degree.
 
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GK86

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SolarPowered said:
He is coming to NYC soon? We don't need this. Shit is going to be MEGA expensive and a pain in the ass for residents.
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He is too shook to come to NYC. NYC hates him. Imagine the protests and hatred. That snowflake couldn't handle it.
 
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