Don Jr. and Eric Trump's Middle East jaunt cost US taxpayers over $40,000 in hotel rooms and rental cars

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Source: The Independent

Exclusive: Don Jr. and Eric Trump’s Middle East jaunt cost US taxpayers over $40,000 in hotel rooms and rental cars

Exclusive: The outlays by the Secret Service did not include flight costs, agents’ salaries, meals, and other significant expenditures while the president’s kids were drumming up new business for the Trump Organization

Justin Rohrlich
Monday 21 July 2025 16:58 BST

Amid wanton budget cuts by the Trump Administration that put thousands of government employees out of work, canceled school lunch programs for needy kids and zeroed out funding for crucial research into cancer, U.S. taxpayers shelled out for rental cars and hotel rooms as the president’s two eldest sons pursued private business deals in the Middle East.

Federal procurement data reviewed by The Independent shows more than $40,000 in disbursements by the Secret Service, whose agents accompanied Don Jr. and Eric Trump to Qatar and Saudi Arabia this spring, underwritten by the American public.

One transaction, a $13,984 payment arranged by the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh and funded by the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, describes the outlay as: “ERIC TRUMP Protective USSS Visit – 4 rental vehicles.”

It was prepared on April 20, and approved on May 13, 2025, the same day President Trump arrived in the kingdom. However, Eric, 41, was not part of the official delegation, according to reports.

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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/don-jr-eric-trump-secret-service-qatar-saudi-arabia-b2793080.html

Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-don-jr-eric-trump-155824125.html

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1. "Ha ha.Taxpayer suckers.Ha ha." - Uday and Qusay Klones (R-NepoBabies)

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2. I wonder how much the Trump Family Crime Syndicate will steal from the American people?

[Blue Owl]

3. Welfare Queens living off the government's dime

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4. Waste, fraud and abuse

[Emile]

5. CONServatives

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6. K&R