The Secret Service can no longer pay hundreds of agents it needs to carry out an expanded protective mission – in large part due to the sheer size of President Trump's family and efforts necessary to secure their multiple residences up and down the East Coast.
Secret Service Director Randolph "Tex'' Alles, in an interview with USA TODAY, said more than 1,000 agents have already hit the federally mandated caps for salary and overtime allowances that were meant to last the entire year.
The agency has faced a crushing workload since the height of the contentious election season, and it has not relented in the first seven months of the administration. Agents must protect Trump – who has traveled almost every weekend to his properties in Florida, New Jersey and Virginia – and his adult children whose business trips and vacations have taken them across the country and overseas.
"The president has a large family, and our responsibility is required in law,'' Alles said. "I can't change that. I have no flexibility.''
Alles said the service is grappling with an unprecedented number of White House protectees. Under Trump, 42 people have protection, a number that includes 18 members of his family. That's up from 31 during the Obama administration.
It is not just the large number of Trump family members and associates that is draining resources, it is also the number of locations the Secret Service is expected to cover and the amount of traveling they are required to do.
In response a number of agents are leaving the agency.
And that situation does not appear to be changing anytime soon:
The compensation crunch is so serious that the director has begun discussions with key lawmakers to raise the combined salary and overtime cap for agents, from $160,000 per year to $187,000 for at least the duration of Trump's first term.
But even if such a proposal was approved, about 130 veteran agents would not be fully compensated for hundreds of hours already amassed, according to the agency.
"I don't see this changing in the near term,'' Alles said.
So not only do you have to protect Cheeto Hitler, but you may have to do it on your own time without any hope of compensation.
I don't know why anybody should be surprised. After all this is EXACTLY how Trump treated contractors that worked for him in the past.
Off-topic: Trump to announce a new Afghanistan strategy tonight.
ReplyDeleteAfghanistan is known as "the Graveyard of Empires" for good reason -- actually, for several good reasons dating back to when the Greeks tried to find an "Afghan strategy."
Trump got that before, now he is turning. What happened? It will be good for some bu$ine$$ men. It may be an investment.
DeleteRussia will love the Americans to make the mistake they made. Afghanistan was their Vietnam. I guess Trump is not colluding with the Russians about a forever war in Afghanistan.
The last (and only ever) person to effectively 'conquer' Afghanistan was Alexander The Great. The only way he did it is by marrying the daughter of the highest ranking warlord, effectively becoming kin to 2 thirds of the all the warlords.
DeleteKing of a Graveyard.
DeleteAw, he tweeked it around.
Eyeroll.
Is that all ya got Donny Brook?
What a Fat Tub of Lard!
And...hes your President.
Good luck with all that!
Maybe the Nazis should try and protect him for no charge.
ReplyDeleteAfter all no one has tried to off him so far.
So should be a good job for fat, lazy, hateful militia types also?
These are practical options for all the "true conservatives that voted for a Republican for president!
Let them protect the imbeciles at the golf course,vacations,businesses, golden showers, McDonald's, etc.
Who gets the job of protecting the first family when the Secret Service is dismantled by lack of funds?
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Hahaha there you go! Free!
DeleteThink somebody that is worth 10 billion could help pay for part of his protection.
ReplyDeleteI doubt he is worth 10 billion. If he is lucky it may be more like 4 billion.
DeleteI doubt he is even really a billionaire
DeleteHe isn't even worth a Billion. He inflates a lot of real estate worth and doesn't outright own some of it. He also includes his "name" as some of his worth and over inflates that.
DeleteThen there are the loans. Trump ignores or dismisses loans or money owed.
If Trump liquidated everything, then paid all of the loans, he'd still owe money.
Melania is going to be in for a rude awakening when Trump dies. There is going to be a YUUUGE disparity between the will and reality.
If she's lucky she can keep either the apartment in Trump Tower or Mar-A-Lago but not both. She might even need to get rid of the Trump Tower current living space and downsize to something a lot more modest.
A pharisee
DeleteYou mean in DEBT 10 billion?
DeleteThat fat fuck never worked.
Lazy, creepy chicken shit.
The Secret Service can't save or protect Donald Trump from himself. When are they going to have that mental health evaluation?
ReplyDeleteAs Trump glances at solar eclipse without glasses, aide yells, 'Don’t look!'
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/08/21/president-trump-melania-trump-watch-eclipse-white-house-balcony/586225001/
I don't think that the Secret Service should have to protect the younger Trumps as they traipse all around the world vacationing or making money for themselves. The Trumps can afford their own security. And there should be no more federal money spent in NYC for Trump Tower; the third wife can stay in Washington and Trump should stay there too.
ReplyDeleteBeagle mom
Exactly. Minor children yes. But they should have to protect adult children and *their* minor children.
DeleteThis is probably why he's tried to put his entire family on the government payroll.
What? The Secret Service is running out of money to protect the president and the children of his three wives and his current wife???
ReplyDeleteThat's sum bullshit proppropagated by them anti-Nazi people.
Why can't that fat bastard billionaire pay for his and his family's protection services?
ReplyDeleteWill he get secret service protection in Leavenworth?
Delete134 0h they will take GOOD care of him. Hahaha.
DeleteI saw an accounting of how much it cost taxpayers when his two sons went to, I believe, Dubya, on Trump business. It was a staggering amount. There is no reason that we should have footed that bill. Same when Ivanka and crew went skiing. They are all rich enough (or perhaps they are not?) to pay their own security or stay home. With today's communications abilities I'll bet that Dubya, and others, could be done via computers. They are all blood suckers.
ReplyDeleteDubai.
DeleteDubya was Bush II.
Show us your taxes and maybe we'll think about it when hell freeezes?
ReplyDeleteI am sorry, I have to correct my last post. It was uraguay that tweeties dee and rweedie dum(b) went for a business meeting and the SS bill alone was over $110,00. That doesn't include salaries/overtime, food, etc.
ReplyDeleteBuilding contractors and minorities work for the Trump enterprise for free, why can't the Secret Service agents work for the same free wages?
ReplyDeleteTrump put his foot down and insists no illegal immigrants working Secret Service.
DeleteI know that secret svc is supposed to risk their life for the President. However! If it was me protecting dump, if i saw a problem about to happen I would definitely step out of the way and let nature take its course. I don't know how the one's who have the that job and don't like him do it. There has to be a few of them that feel that way.
ReplyDeleteCrybabies, stop complaining America. If you are willing to pay above the market rent money to house Secret Service agents to live in the Trump Tower apartments to protect Melania and The Barron then what's an extra $10,000,000 for overtime?
ReplyDeleteAlles told USA Today the agency is handling an unprecedented number of White House officials who need protection. Under Trump, 42 people have protection, including 18 members of the Trump family. That's up from 31 during the Obama administration.
ReplyDeleteWonder if Sarah blackmailed him on that visit. You get me protection, or pee pee.
DeleteThey are not being paid...and they are being treated like servants...
ReplyDeleteUnpaid servitude; Hmmmm...what does *that* sound like? And *these* are the people who have your lives in their capable hands...I know *I'd* treat them like *family*!
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/secret-service-at-the-end-of-their-rope-after-being-treated-like-servants-by-trump-report/
5000"Five thousand ecstasy pills to be exact."every pill is shaped like Trump's head, completel with large overcomb and pouty face stamped on the front, and his name emblazoned on the back in all caps."
ReplyDelete"Trump makes partying great again."
$peed freak 'T"OO!
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/german-police-seize-drugs-shaped-like-donald-trump/
OT?
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" beginning on the day of Obama’s first inaugural, the Secret Service fielded an unprecedented number of threats against the President’s person."
ReplyDelete" “Donald Trump is not an outlier; he is a culmination, a logical conclusion of the rhetoric and tactics of the Republican Party for the past ten, fifteen, twenty years."
"Two years ago, the Daily Stormer, the foremost neo-Nazi news site in the country, called on white men to “vote for the first time in our lives for the one man who actually represents our interests.” Trump never spurned this current of his support. He invited it, exploited it."
"This is the inescapable fact: on November 9th, the United States elected a dishonest, inept, unbalanced, and immoral human being as its President"
"The most important resistance to Trump has to come from civil society, from institutions, and from individuals who, despite their differences, believe in constitutional norms and have a fundamental respect for the values of honesty, equality, and justice."<<----xx
http://field-negro.blogspot.com/2017/08/we-all-saw-it-coming.html
This could all be resolved by taking away the protection from his adult children especially since it is optional and they can afford to pay for their own security on their business trips and vacations.
ReplyDeleteWhy is anyone surprised, the only thing little donnie is good at is bankruptcy.
ReplyDeleteSo over $600,000 was spent on golf cart rentals. I assume paid to Trump through his golf course. I can't image what was paid out for renting rooms and food for the secret service at his golf resort. We are basically lining Trump's pockets to protect him.
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