re: Newsweek: Tiffany Trump cost taxpayers 4 times annual salary of average Serbian

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In February 2019, a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report said that federal agencies incurred costs of about $13.6 million for the president's four trips to Mar-a-Lago from February 3 through March 5, 2017.

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Two questions:

1. How much would have been spent had he gone and stayed somewhere else?

2. How much of that amount are you claiming went to Trumps hotel, etc?

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In February 2019, a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report said that federal agencies incurred costs of about $13.6 million for the president's four trips to Mar-a-Lago from February 3 through March 5, 2017.

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For reference, it cost $8 million for Obama to go to Hawaii for 17 days over Christmas 2013. (He took similar trips every year he was in office)

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This week we received expense recordsfrom the Department of Homeland Security revealing that Secret Service expenses for the Obama family vacation to Honolulu during December 2013-January 2014 cost taxpayers at least $316,698.03.  These new expense records bring the total for the Hawaii Christmas vacation trip to $8,098,060.33.

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The heavily redacted records were in response to a January 6, 2014, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.  According to the records:

$91,751.78 in car rental expenses were paid

$224,974.05 in accommodation expenses were paid to Cabana Girl, LLC and Paradise Luxury Rentals

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In March 2014, Judicial Watch released flight expense records from the U.S. Department of the Air Force revealing that for the 2013 Hawaii vacation the Obamas incurred $7,781,361.30 in flight expenses alone (36.9 hours at $210,877 an hour).

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Last month, Judicial Watch separately sued the Department of Homeland Security for ignoring 19 other FOIA requests.  The FOIA lawsuit asks the court to enjoin the Secret Service from continuing to withhold responsive documents from Judicial Watch. The known total expense to the American taxpayers thus far for all Obama travel is now $70,880,035.78.

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I don't recall the MSM giving two shits about any of those expenses.