Secret Service out of money to pay agents because of Trump's frequent travel, large family
Source: USA Today
WASHINGTON The Secret Service can no longer afford to 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.
Secret Service Director Randolph "Tex'' Alles, in an interview with USA TODAY, said more than 1,000 agents have already hit the federally mandated caps for salary and overtime allowances that were meant to last the entire year.
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.
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Overwork and constant travel has also been driving a recent exodus from the Secret Service ranks, yet without congressional intervention to provide additional funding, Alles will not even be able pay agents for the work they have already done.
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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/21/secret-service-cant-pay-agents-because-trumps-frequent-travel-large-family/529075001/
Renew Deal
(81,859 posts)Hopefully this can be remediated
forgotmylogin
(7,528 posts)Renew Deal
(81,859 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)pay for their own security, since they brag about how wealthy they are? What a HUGE mistake the gop has made. We have an unqualified, childish president, his useless family of misfits all on taxpayer $$$. Making America BROKE again should be their mantra. Once they are convicted, hopefully at least SOME of their boasts about their wealth will prove true, so we can replenish the treasury that they are bleeding dry. Can anyone testify that they are WORTH all this protection? The gop proves on a daily basis that they do not care for this country. They stand by the worst example of a patriot EVER to occupy (part time) the WH. Is the Russian money STILL rolling in for the tRumps and the gop?
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)This was posted on DU in early April, when our national nightmare had just begun:
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Yeah, reimbursing the gov't for their pay would be a good first step.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)1,000 agents for one presidents family?
ck4829
(35,077 posts)Something.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)Because anyone can see where this is going
IronLionZion
(45,445 posts)and our party should be prepared for anything. Like private security guards for our candidate
milestogo
(16,829 posts)instead of wasting millions of taxpayer dollars.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Cosmocat
(14,564 posts)that saw a bump in SS protection, they would have passed legislation requiring the first family to foot the bill past a certain limit a week into his or her term ...
obamachangetheworld
(121 posts)He kept bragging about how rich he was and wouldn't cost taxpayers money, it's time to force him to eat those words!
defacto7
(13,485 posts)It seems to me people aren't doing the math. I've said it before and I'll say it again...
Trump has no money! He has assets that he controls, he has the power to keep people under control, but he has no worth. His debt ourweigh his assets probably multiple times. He has. High dealing multi billionaires who he owes bigtime and he may have the goods on them and that is what keeps him in his Gucci. But he doesnt have cash he can repay the government with. That's why he lives off the high hog on taxpayer money. It's easy money for the lifestyle he accustomed to and he's the potus so who's going to stop him?
When his shit his the fan, his assets will go to legal defense and paying corporate business debts and there won't be anything left for the many people he's bilked over the years and certainly not the debt he owes the us government.
Just another orange jumpsuit with a number when that's sorted out and we citizens will have been stripped and pinched.
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)and martyr him at the same time!
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Tanuki
(14,918 posts)as free baby sitters and chauffeurs. There was a minor incident involving one of Don Jr.'s very young kids while he was being driven, unaccompanied by either parent, from suburban New York (Westchester IIRC) into Manhattan. The child was much younger than the age at which one would typically go into the city independently and I wondered if it was more a matter of convenience and privilege than security. This is obviously happening daily, as well as all of that international travel.
thesquanderer
(11,989 posts)rurallib
(62,416 posts)to protect the traitor's exorbitant lifestyle?
for the humor impaired
NCjack
(10,279 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,025 posts)quietly in what will most likely be a CR for fiscal year 2018 appropriations.
IADEMO2004
(5,554 posts)Average annual spending of last five presidents adjust for inflation (using social security COLA) and spending over that amount billed to Trumps.
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)Thread winner imo.
Paka
(2,760 posts)CrispyQ
(36,470 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,318 posts)that are putting money into his pockets. Or get some from the Kushner family who use the family connection in their marketing for the Chinese visa scam. With all the profiteering Trump and his family are doing, there ought to be enough to cover their security.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)You beat me to it. Thank you
dalton99a
(81,510 posts)Bladewire
(381 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Dump's annual salary wouldn't cover a DAY'S security expenses.
Bladewire
(381 posts)atreides1
(16,079 posts)Any of his adult children may decline Secret Service protection, but being the spoiled brats they are, they won't!
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)America has no need for any of them. They aren't kids, so push them out of our nest and cut our loses.
More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)So besides losing the "prestige" of having security, the family would also lose that revenue. Grifters, all. I thought the Palins were bad!
IronLionZion
(45,445 posts)I certainly wouldn't want to join up while this family is fleecing America.
Maybe they'll provide some tax cuts to fix this problem and cut government spending some more on what little is left on program that help people. Watch Dumbo donate his salary this month to the Secret Service, as if that will make up for the millions it costs them to protect his family.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Mayor wants Trump to delay Phoenix rally
By John Bowden - 08/16/17
The mayor of Phoenix, Ariz., issued a statement Wednesday night urging President Trump to delay his campaign-style rally in the city while "our nation is still healing" from the violence that took place in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.
It is my hope that more sound judgment prevails and that he delays his visit," Mayor Greg Stanton (D) said in a statement, also saying he is "disappointed" with the president.
progressoid
(49,990 posts)more sound judgment .... Bwahahahahaha
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)45 shows little to none
dobleremolque
(491 posts)and dishonorable Trump family tradition. He's brought it to the White House.
kairos12
(12,862 posts)James48
(4,436 posts)By law, no Federal Employee can be paid more than roughly $174,000 a year, with very few exceptions.
If the Agents hit that cap before the end of the year, then legally they CANNOT be assigned to work any more, because they cannot be paid.
Great.
Just park his ass in the White House and tell him he can't go anywhere until next year.
BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)all the time or he is going to get hurt. It seems like he is asking for it. He needs the Secret Service for this reason more than any other president on the past 100 years since he is so intensely a hated.
PatSeg
(47,458 posts)to provide protection for his family.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,340 posts)WIN for the president and family.
WIN for Eric Prince (and his family).
WIN for the American taxpayers.
Ok, well, not so much a win for the taxpayers.
PatSeg
(47,458 posts)aren't tied up in Afghanistan. Just privatize everything. What could possibly go wrong?
Efilroft Sul
(3,579 posts)And Trump's free-market security force could be about going on the offense as much as providing defense.
PatSeg
(47,458 posts)He would love to be protected by violent thugs. "Get 'em out of here, get 'em out of here! Don't worry, I'll pay your legal fees."
Bayard
(22,075 posts)They will cut the Obama family's protection to pay for his.....
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)DFW
(54,387 posts)Let the Republicans in Congress hold up their noses and say they are for fiscal responsibility, and refuse to further fund the Secret Service due to its cost overruns and the "indefensible burden on the American Taxpayer."
But Trump needn't worry. As long as the alternative is Pence, no one will even throw a paper airplane in his direction. Well, Mitch McConnell or Steve Bannon, maybe, come to think of it.
Cosmocat
(14,564 posts)they would have been apocalyptic about it and passed legislation to force them to foot the bill past a certain amount a week into his or her term ...
spooky3
(34,455 posts)would take action on this. I'm sure it'll happen first thing tomorrow.
DFW
(54,387 posts)Right under the appearance of Godot.
eggplant
(3,911 posts)*snerk*
greatauntoftriplets
(175,735 posts)DFW
(54,387 posts)The bigger threat to them is more likely to be dying of boredom than from some would-be assassin.
obamachangetheworld
(121 posts)iamateacher
(1,089 posts)Morale for the Secret Service is among the lowest of any government agency. Recruiting is very selective and training for a new agent is very intensive, expensive, and lasts more than 6 months. By the end of the training, the agent is highly qualified and can easily get a job elsewhere...which they are doing, in droves....so retention is a real issue. They are trying to keep the agents, but with limited overtime, many end up working crazy hours for no pay because they have maxed out. They are maxed out because they can't retain agents, or train them fast enough.
Runningdawg
(4,516 posts)hand 45 a 45 and tell him he is on his own!
fierywoman
(7,683 posts)Think of all the money the US would save if the SS stopped protecting the extended T-rump family!
moondust
(19,984 posts)Vinca
(50,273 posts)briv1016
(1,570 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,318 posts)"at both Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster. " It's the kind of farce that make you nauseous rather than happy.
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Great job, Mr. Businessman.
sandensea
(21,635 posts)I've lost count; but it's in the millions.