Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Dominican Republic Business Trip: The record

Reporting and findings

1. documented

   Eric Trump traveled to the Dominican Republic in connection with a Trump-branded resort project while receiving Secret Service protection.

   • U.S. Government Accountability Office: Presidential Travel: Secret Service and DOD Need to Ensure That Expenditure Reports Are Prepared and Submitted to CongressPages 20-23; Uruguay, Dominican Republic and UAE protection costs; reporting limits
   • Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: CREW gets Trump family business Secret Service spending documentsBusiness-purpose travel examples and FOIA spending records
2. documented

   Eric Trump's business role and the retained family business interest provide the Trump-root trace.

   • U.S. Government Accountability Office: Presidential Travel: Secret Service and DOD Need to Ensure That Expenditure Reports Are Prepared and Submitted to CongressPages 20-23; Uruguay, Dominican Republic and UAE protection costs; reporting limits
   • Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: CREW gets Trump family business Secret Service spending documentsBusiness-purpose travel examples and FOIA spending records
   • Time: Read a Transcript of Donald Trump's Press Conference on Conflicts of InterestSheri Dillon remarks: no new foreign deals, limited information rights, compliance counsel, and donation of foreign-government hotel profits