The following post by Aaron Rupar was posted on the ThinkProgress website February 20, 2017:
Meanwhile, his budget proposal cuts programs for poor people.
On Monday, President Trump will return to Washington, D.C. from his private Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, where he’s spent the last three weekends.
The Washington Post reports that those three trips “probably cost the federal treasury about $10 million, based on figures used in an October government report analyzing White House travel, including money for Coast Guard units to patrol the exposed shoreline and other military, security and staffing expenses associated with moving the apparatus of the presidency.”
So far, the highlight of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago trips has been him and his aides struggling to deal with an international crisis in full view of diners and staff during the evening of February 11. Continue reading “Trump’s first month of travel expenses cost taxpayers just less than what Obama spent in a year”