re: Should the Secret Service stop protection?

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Trump lives in a government-funded house with paid government funded utilities eating government-funded food. Basically like welfare.

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Common myth, while the president does not pay rent while living in the White House, he is billed monthly for a large portion of the expenses incurred, including all meals for the president and family that are not part of a official function.



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"Bush wrote that a bill came monthly, itemizing everything she and her family owed, including food, dry cleaning and hourly wages for waiters and cleanup crews at private parties.

"There were some costs that I was not prepared for," Bush wrote. "I was amazed by the sheer number of designer clothes that I was expected to buy, like the women before me, to meet the expectations for a first lady."