Biden weekend get away piece in the NY Post….
They maybe knocking the security cost….
(That every President and ex-President has)
But Biden isn’t making money off this like Donald Trump (Billionaire?) who continues to have taxpayers paying his companies for his secret ‘footprint’
Biden’s choice of regular weekend and a few midweek trips home to Delaware have cost nearly $3 million in security alone, Secret Service expense records shared with The Post show.
Biden’s security detail spent $1.96 million on 16 trips to his Delaware homes this year, the records indicate. Another nine trips aren’t yet counted and likely push the total to $3 million.
Those 25 trips have been racked up in just 43 weeks in office.
And the true price tag to taxpayers is higher because the Pentagon hasn’t released costs for Air Force One and Marine One helicopter trips.
“Most Americans know that Biden is being hidden because he isn’t fit for office,” a former Trump White House official taunted. “What they may not realize is that they’re paying insane amounts of money for him to be tucked into bed in Delaware every weekend.”…
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Presidents have widely varying weekend habits. Former President Donald Trump regularly left the White House on weekends to visit his resorts. But Biden’s former boss, President Barack Obama, rarely took personal weekend trips.
The Secret Service tab of roughly $3 million for the 77 days Biden visited his Delaware homes far outpaces the $2.4 million in Secret Service costs to protect Trump during the 99 days he spent at his Bedminster, NJ, golf course over four years.
But costs incurred by agencies other than the Secret Service can dramatically increase costs. For example, four Trump stays at his coastal Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida in early 2017 cost $13.6 million — $10.6 million of which was for official aircraft and boats. Each Trump trip cost the Coast Guard about $1 million….
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Howie Hawkins, who ran against Biden as the Green Party’s presidential candidate last year, said he’s unbothered by Biden’s arguably unnecessary travel…
Note…
Can you picture Donald Trump riding a bike?
I wonder if he even knows how to?
For my expansive post on ‘When President’s Travel…
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