Presidential Travel: Secret Service and DOD Need to Ensure That Expenditure Reports Are Prepared and Submitted to Congress

U.S. Government Accountability Office2019-02-05

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The trip set a documented pattern of public cost supporting private business. It does not establish that protection spending was paid to a Trump entity or produced a quantified profit.
Pages 20-23; Uruguay, Dominican Republic and UAE protection costs; reporting limits
Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Uruguay Business Trip: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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Eric Trump traveled to Uruguay in connection with a Trump-branded development while receiving Secret Service protection.
Pages 20-23; Uruguay, Dominican Republic and UAE protection costs; reporting limits
Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Uruguay Business Trip: The record · The record
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Eric Trump traveled as a Trump Organization executive to a family-branded project while Trump retained the business interest.
Pages 20-23; Uruguay, Dominican Republic and UAE protection costs; reporting limits
Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Uruguay Business Trip: The record · The record
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The total trip cost is public operating expense, not Trump revenue. Separately, the Secret Service paid at least $1.4 million to Trump-owned properties during the stated period.
Highlights and costs for four trips, February 3-March 5, 2017
Taxpayers at Trump Properties — Audit finding · Cited analysis
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The total trip cost is public operating expense, not Trump revenue. Separately, the Secret Service paid at least $1.4 million to Trump-owned properties during the stated period.
GAO-19-178 highlights, total operating costs
Taxpayers at Trump Properties — Audit finding · Cited analysis
documented
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, 2017
Taxpayers 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, 2017
Taxpayers at Trump Properties — The record · The record
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The government paid protection costs tied to private business travel. The cited record does not establish a new deal, a project profit, or protection funds reaching the Trump business.
Pages 20-23; Uruguay, Dominican Republic and UAE protection costs; reporting limits
Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Dominican Republic Business Trip: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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Eric Trump traveled to the Dominican Republic in connection with a Trump-branded resort project while receiving Secret Service protection.
Pages 20-23; Uruguay, Dominican Republic and UAE protection costs; reporting limits
Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Dominican Republic Business Trip: The record · The record
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Eric Trump's business role and the retained family business interest provide the Trump-root trace.
Pages 20-23; Uruguay, Dominican Republic and UAE protection costs; reporting limits
Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Dominican Republic Business Trip: The record · The record
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Public protection spending supported a private Trump Organization business trip. The record does not show that spending reaching the Trump business as revenue.
Pages 20-23; Uruguay, Dominican Republic and UAE protection costs; reporting limits
Secret Service Costs for the Trump Sons' UAE Business Trip: Audit finding · Cited analysis
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Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump traveled to the United Arab Emirates for the opening of a Trump-branded golf club with Secret Service protection.
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Secret Service Costs for the Trump Sons' UAE Business Trip: The record · The record
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Trump's adult sons traveled as Trump Organization executives to promote the family licensing business while Trump retained its beneficial interest.
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Secret Service Costs for the Trump Sons' UAE Business Trip: The record · The record
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GAO included the Dominican Republic in its calculation of public protection costs for the three trips.
Pages 20-23; Uruguay, Dominican Republic and UAE protection costs; reporting limits
Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Dominican Republic Business Trip: Outcome · Outcome
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The available total is shared across three trips and cannot be assigned wholly to Uruguay without trip-level source data.
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Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Uruguay Business Trip: Evidentiary limit · Evidentiary limit
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GAO included Uruguay in the three adult-child international trips for which it calculated federal protection costs.
Pages 20-23; Uruguay, Dominican Republic and UAE protection costs; reporting limits
Secret Service Costs for Eric Trump's Uruguay Business Trip: Outcome · Outcome
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The protection was legally required; its cost is a public expense associated with, not a payment to, the private project.
Pages 20-23; Uruguay, Dominican Republic and UAE protection costs; reporting limits
Secret Service Costs for the Trump Sons' UAE Business Trip: Evidentiary limit · Evidentiary limit
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GAO included the trip in its accounting of federal protection costs for three early-2017 international trips by Trump's adult children.
Pages 20-23; Uruguay, Dominican Republic and UAE protection costs; reporting limits
Secret Service Costs for the Trump Sons' UAE Business Trip: 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.
GAO-19-178 highlights, total operating costs
Taxpayers at Trump Properties — Outcome · Outcome
documented
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, 2017
Taxpayers at Trump Properties — Outcome · Outcome