Donald Trump’s Constant Vacations Have Depleted Secret Service Budget: Report
Trump’s vacations are a bigger problem than we thought.
A new report confirms what many have already speculated, Donald Trump’s near constant vacationing is costing US taxpayers a fortune.
In fact, the Secret Service budget has been depleted because of Trump’s trips and large family, according to a new USA Today report.
“The Secret Service can no longer pay hundreds of agents it needs to carry out an expanded protective mission – in large part due to the sheer size of President Trump’s family and efforts necessary to secure their multiple residences up and down the East Coast,” the report noted.
The Director of the Secret Service confirmed in an interview with USA Today that well over 1,000 agents have already exceeded their annual salary and overtime caps.
Those caps are meant to last an entire year, it is only August.
As the USA Today report notes, “The agency has faced a crushing workload since the height of the contentious election season, and it has not relented in the first seven months of the administration. Agents must protect Trump – who has traveled almost every weekend to his properties in Florida, New Jersey and Virginia – and his adult children whose business trips and vacations have taken them across the country and overseas.”
And the grueling schedules caused by Trump’s travel has caused a mass exodus from the Secret Service.
“The compensation crunch is so serious that the director has begun discussions with key lawmakers to raise the combined salary and overtime cap for agents, from $160,000 per year to $187,000 for at least the duration of Trump’s first term. But even if such a proposal was approved, about 130 veteran agents would not be fully compensated for hundreds of hours already amassed, according to the agency,” the report went on to say.
Read the full USA Today report here.
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