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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMar-a-Lago Trips Cost More Than Transgender Troops
https://politicalwire.com/2017/07/27/mar-lago-trips-cost-transgender-troops/"SNIP..........
In announcing his ban on transgender people in the military, President Trump said that taxpayers cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.
Except that USA Today points out that trans troops dont really cost that much: A report for the Pentagon last year found that transition-related care would cost between about $2.4 and $8.4 million per year less than 0.14% of the militarys medical budget. Thats roughly the cost of four of Trumps trips to Mar-A-Lago.
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Mar-a-Lago Trips Cost More Than Transgender Troops (Original Post)
applegrove
Jul 2017
OP
So obviously it's not about the money. Trump is just throwing a bone to the
smirkymonkey
Jul 2017
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Lucinda
(31,170 posts)1. KNR Thank you!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)2. So obviously it's not about the money. Trump is just throwing a bone to the
evangelicals in his base. If he really cared about the money, he'd curtail his weekend vacations to his properties. Like everything he does, it's just pure hate, spite and tossing red meat out to the deplorables.
panader0
(25,816 posts)3. To Trump, it's not really about the money.
It's a cookie for Pence and the religious right wing.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)4. Cost of Trump's golfing trips averaging a quarter million dollars every day he is in office.
That does not include the cost to the environment or impact on global warming, etc., which I'm sure he is doiong everything possible to keep to an absolute minimum just like all the other billionaires ....