Most expensive president in history [View all]
MAY 9 2017 - 2:18AM
Barbara Demick
... a unique set of circumstances has made the current presidential family the most expensive in history. There is no standard methodology to tally travel and protection costs, but based on publicly available information reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, the total for Trump's first 100 days was at least $30 million ($A40m). By comparison, the conservative think tank Judicial Watch found .. costs for .. Obama and his much smaller family averaged $12 million ($A16m) a year ...
The jump in costs is largely due to the fact that Trump has used three separate residences - the White House, Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago. Over the weekend he added a fourth: the Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club where the family has traditionally spent summer weekends.
In addition to protecting the president and first lady, the Secret Service guards five children, their three spouses and eight grandchildren - 16 people in all. Since the election, Secret Service agents have accompanied the president's two adult sons on business trips to Dubai, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, Canada, Ireland and Scotland. Each "protectee" - as they are called by the Secret Service - gets his or her own security detail even when travelling together ...
http://www.smh.com.au/world/trump-protection-in-first-100-day-soars-to-40-million-most-expensive-president-in-history-20170508-gw0h7h.html
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