Secret Service To Rent 2 Floors At Trump Tower; Presidential Profits At Taxpayers' Expense?
After reports that New York City is spending at least $1 million a day for the incoming first family's security, another "expensive news" surfaces. This time, involving the US Secret Service and the president-elect Donald Trump's famous building, the Trump Tower in Fifth Avenue, New York. How true is the plan on making the Secret Service rent a floor at the Tower at the expense of the city's taxpayers?
Donald Trump is not yet seated as president, but there already is an overflooding of complaints in his decisions. One of the most alarming of them would be his big spending. This plan of making the Secret Service rent in the building came up after Melania Trump decided to stay at the Tower with her son, Barron, for a few months more.
This issue is causing havoc among the city's taxpayers and the ordinary residents of the said building. According to Curbed NY, around 250 agents from the Secret Service are needed to keep Trump's family "safe."
In a report by the CNN, the person responsible for commercial rents at the Trump Tower, Jared Horowitz, shared how big and costly the floors to be rented would be. Horowitz explains that each floor measures about 13,500 square feet to 15,500 square feet and would cost around $1.5 million annually.
Aside from this unreasonable expenditure, another thing that enrages the people who reside in the building was their own security and peace. For them, it would be unfair that while the first family is safely tucked in, they will have to live with the fact that their lives could be liabilities to the dangers that entail the first family's lives. Also, the daily fuss over the high-security situation could cause traffic and disquiet to the residents living in and nearby the Tower.
Meanwhile, in-depth reports further discuss how inconvenient this could be for the taxpayers but highly favorable to Donald Trump. While his family is being secured without any coin leaving his pockets, the rent money will, on the other hand, be secured directly to his bank, too. Like they say, once a businessman, always a businessman.
