Washington – President Donald Trump’s July Fourth event has bankrupted a special fund used to provide security and protect the nation’s capital from terrorist threats.
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The Washington Post reports the celebration cost the District of Columbia about $1.7 million, not including police expenses for related demonstrations.
Mayor Muriel E. Bowser wrote Trump on Tuesday warning that the fund will have a $6 million deficit by September, reminding the president that the account was never reimbursed for $7.3 million in expenses from Trump’s 2017 inauguration.
Bowser wants the White House to fully reimburse the fund. She said on CNN Thursday that D.C. taxpayers shouldn’t “be left holding the bag for federal events.”
White House spokesman Judd Deere says officials will respond “in a timely manner.”
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Information from: The Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com
I am not surprised. He will say it is the democrats fault then try to cut social security and other programs to make up the costs.
It was well worth the money because a secret long hidden from the American public was reveled by Mr Trump. Never before were we told of the seizure of airports from the Brits during the Revolutionary War. What other secrets will Trump inadvertently blurt out? Maybe we will learn that there were no pigs found at the Bay of Pigs at the time of the invasion.
Her Trump struts and juts out his chin in a perfect imitation of Benito Mussolini…it fits, two anti democratic blowhards…no kidding, google pictures of Mussolini giving speeches.
just looking at the source of the article, the notoriously antisemitic and anti trump ‘journalists’, I will surmise that this is nothing but fake news. I highly doubt that the president bankrupts anything while he works tirelessly (and successfully, just ask the economists) under the most vicious of media attacks, to help make america great again.
would it not make sense that obama bankrupted the country after giving iran billions, yes billions, in cash in secrecy??? no coverage of that
when will vin get it straight? ap is anti us and anti US(of A). stop using them so religiously as your source