The Trump administration is reportedly seeking to delay a Democratic effort requiring the Secret Service to disclose its spending on the protection of President Trump and his family during their travels.
I’m confused.
Aren’t they already being run by the Russian treasury department?
That hair sure looks preternaturally thick with a really bad dye job.
Things this administration is good at: delay, obfuscate, project, distract
Does this look like a guy who’s afraid of a little sunshine?
Yeah, we can’t know the amount of taxpayer dollars being used to protect the president, that would be awful. /s
We should know the spending amount, each year, for each president; if there is a big spend (say, a retrofit of Air Force 1), that can be called out as a separate item. But we should know…it’s obvious they don’t want to say because of all the trips to Trump properties and by his kids that have increased the spending tremendously over Obama.
“…the protection of President Trump and his family during their travels.”
I understand the Secret Service and Canadian Intelligence have almost come to blows every time Melaria or Iwonka get anywhere near Justin Trudeau.
(Canadian Intelligence is actually a thing. Sort of like MI6, but much more polite. Instead of a licence to kill, their “Double O” rating gives you a license to double-park. Extrajudicial and unconstitutional, I know, but let’s face it – the world’s a dangerous place. With a parking shortage.)
“Conversations about the return of the Secret Service to the Treasury Department are ongoing, and we decline to comment on individual aspects of those conversations,” a Treasury official told the Post.
Here’s one more : leaking
Uh-huh. And there are certainly some 5-year-olds who’d like to delay the disclosure of who climbed up on a chair and knocked down the cookie jar until after Mom and Dad are done being mad about it. But what I’m not hearing in there is any justification that isn’t a goddamned obvious attempt to avoid embarrassment at their obvious corruption. They’re not even trying. Not. Even. Trying.
This is least transparent UST in modern history. Of course he wants to keep Dipshit’s travel expenses private. They oppose ANY disclosure.
This is the same UST that, rather than utilizing its large analytical unit to analyze the tax
bill, issues a one page press release touting the (phony) boost to GDP it would generate.
New rule. When the argue against disclosure, you can bet your last dollar that disclosure is necessary. Tax returns? Nope. Required audit of POTUS tax returns? Nope. And so it goes.
oversight, how the fuck does it work
For stellar reasons, I’m sure.
They don’t so much “oppose” disclosure as to consider the request instruction for disclosure to be fundamentally and philosophically illegitimate.
Pretty sure we fought a few wars so we wouldn’t have a goddamn king, Steve. Although even George III was more beholden to Parliament than Emperor Dotard is to Congress in His Own Beautiful Eyes.
It’s like magnets, nobody knows.
the administration would like to delay the Secret Service requirement until after the 2020 election.
And I counter with how about you release this information right now and give updates every month.
Also, please include a line item noting the amounts that are going directly in Trump businesses (looking at you Mar-a-Lago).
It’s not just how much the Secret Service spends.
We, the people, need a SWAT team of forensic accountants looking at the books throughout the Executive Branch to see how much is going to the First [Crime] Family.
If the Secret Service had spent an additional $25 in overtime to take Sasha Obama to buy some lip gloss, I suspect we might just hear a little something about it. In fact, I’m surprised the Moron hasn’t kvetched about spending SS money on past presidents. He probably doesn’t know we do that.
Gee, you don’t think their trying to hide anything, do you?
“We is not guilty. We is not guilty. We is not guilty.”