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(28,270 posts) Wed Nov 22, 2017, 01:14 PM Nov 2017

Trump's Thanksgiving at Mar-A-Lago Will Cost American Taxpayers Over $1 MILLION

Trump's Thanksgiving at Mar-A-Lago Will Cost American Taxpayers Over $1 MILLION
BY GREG PRICE ON 11/22/17 AT 6:00 AM

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.

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-vacation-costs-thanksgiving-718805