Trump’s Company Has Charged the Secret Service as Much as $650 Per Night for Rooms: Report

President 👤Donald Trump’s properties have a long history of charging the Secret Service huge rates to protect him and a new report from The Washington Post shows that’s not changing.

The Post reports that “the Secret Service was charged the $650 rate dozens of times in 2017, and a different rate, $396.15, dozens more times in 2018,” while they were staying at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, according to newly released documents.

Another set of receipts showed that the Secret Service was billed $17,000 per month for a cottage at Trump’s golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Trump isn’t the first top administration official to charge the Secret Service to stay on his property. Former Vice President Joe Biden also charged them to rent a cottage on his property in Delaware. However, that rent was considerably lower — only $2,000 per month.

Capitol Hill Democrats have accused the administration of stonewalling them when they’ve tried to find out more about the price tag that Trump puts on the Secret Service.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called on the former Secret Service director to testify before Congress about the vulnerabilities of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club. His request came after a Chinese woman