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Taxpayers at Trump Properties — Outcome

Entities and roles

Money trail

  1. public costFour Mar A Lago Trip Cost$13.6 million total federal trip cost
    Estimated public spending source
    United States taxpayers
    estimated · 2019-02-05 · observedPopulation United States taxpayers; United States taxpayers; United States Secret Service; Trump-owned property businesses; Trump-owned property businessesPeriod 2017-02-03 to 2017-03-05Basis GAO combined DOD and Secret Service operating costs for four trips.Limits GAO's estimate combines Defense and Secret Service operating costs; it is not property revenue and excludes some costs outside GAO's scope.Open cited evidence

Claims and evidence

  1. factdocumented

    GAO estimated $13.6 million in federal operating costs for four trips; that total is not the amount paid to Mar-a-Lago.