Presidential Travel: Secret Service and DOD Need to Ensure That Expenditure Reports Are Prepared and Submitted to Congress
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The total trip cost is a public operating cost, not Trump revenue. The narrower property-payment record documents at least $1.4 million paid by the Secret Service to Trump-owned properties during the stated period.
Highlights and costs for four trips, February 3-March 5, 2017Taxpayers at Trump Properties — Audit finding · Cited analysis
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The total trip cost is a public operating cost, not Trump revenue. The narrower property-payment record documents at least $1.4 million paid by the Secret Service to Trump-owned properties during the stated period.
GAO-19-178 highlights, total operating costsTaxpayers at Trump Properties — Audit finding · Cited analysis
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Trump began a set of four early presidential trips to Mar-a-Lago reviewed by GAO.
Highlights and costs for four trips, February 3-March 5, 2017Taxpayers at Trump Properties — The record · The record
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The costs followed President Trump's travel to a property owned by his business organization.
Highlights and costs for four trips, February 3-March 5, 2017Taxpayers at Trump Properties — The record · The record
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GAO estimated $13.6 million in federal operating costs for four trips; that total is not the amount paid to Mar-a-Lago.
GAO-19-178 highlights, total operating costsTaxpayers at Trump Properties — Outcome · Outcome
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GAO estimated $13.6 million in federal operating costs for four trips; that total is not the amount paid to Mar-a-Lago.
Highlights and costs for four trips, February 3-March 5, 2017Taxpayers at Trump Properties — Outcome · Outcome