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[quote=Anonymous]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-05/a-trump-mar-a-lago-trips-cost-u-s-3-4-million-gao-estimates

[quote][b]Four of President Donald Trump’s trips to his Florida home in 2017 cost taxpayers about $13.6 million[/b], amounting to nearly $1 million a day, the U.S. government’s watchdog reported Tuesday.

The federal government’s costs for the four trips included $60,000 paid directly to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released the day of the president’s annual State of the Union address.

Trump was at the Mar-a-Lago resort for portions of 14 days during the period the GAO examined from Feb. 3 through March 5, 2017.

The[b] GAO noted in its report that it didn’t include some expenses that are classified nor did it include salaries or benefits, including overtime, for Secret Service and Defense Department personnel or other government employees traveling with the president[/b]. The salaries and benefits would be paid regardless of their duties on those days, the GAO said.

The totals include operating costs for aircraft and boats and temporary duty costs such as transportation, meals, lodging and incidental expenses, according to the report.[/quote]

The actual cost is much higher I would suppose. Can the conservatives call for end of this misuse of taxpayers money. This is fiscally extremely irresponsible when we cannot afford healthcare or education for all in this country. When this country has thousands of people who sleep or the streets and cannot afford meal, Trump vacations in his own club costing us millions of dollars. This needs to end.

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