Chris Rodriguez, director of the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, said in an interview that the estimated costs for July Fourth were six times as much as in years past and were likely to grow as the city continues to tally expenses . . .
While it once carried large balances from year to year, in the Trump era the fund has dwindled. It was never repaid more than $7 million of the $27.3 million in costs the city incurred during the 2017 inauguration, city officials said.
White House officials have said that the District agreed to use unspent money in the emergency fund to pay for inaugural costs, an assertion denied by the Bowser administration . . .
Yeah, I know: it serves those local, partisan DC hacks right, with their corruption and their profligate spending and the DC mayor is a lying Trump-hater . . . something, something, I am sure.
The important thing is: Stay the course; doing super. On the other hand, the President has a long, long history of ■■■■■■■ over vendors and behaving terribly with finances, so . . .
I’m sure the fiscal conservative members of this board who still remain in the GOP will be in here shortly to condemn Trump’s excesses at the expense of the taxpayer.
Right now would be a great time for a resident conservative to chime in with the ever-so-popular bit of deep wisdom such as “you see, the problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people’s money”
What I bet most libs will conveniently ignore is that most of the additional costs was because of the protests. Obama didn’t have July Fourth protests during his presidency. That alone shows the double standard in how Trump is being treated. Personally, I don’t think the White House should be responsible for paying back Washington D.C. for the expenses of Salute to America, or the inauguration. If D.C. residents want to protest Trump’s Fourth of July and not attend his inauguration then they should be made to pay for their stupidity.