Trump Heads To Mar-A-Lago For Eighth Time

The following article by Greg Price is from Newsweek and was posted on the National Memo website November 23, 2017:

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President Donald Trump embarked on a five-day visit to his posh Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida on Tuesday afternoon, just ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. It is the latest example of a trip that will prove costly to American taxpayers taken by a commander-in-chief who promised to cut back on frivolous spending across the federal government.

Some estimates have pegged the cost of a single round-trip to the estate at $3.6 million, but a more conservative estimate is roughly $2 million per trip, a total mostly made up of the costs to fly on Air Force One, according to The Washington Post. Continue reading “Trump Heads To Mar-A-Lago For Eighth Time”