December 3, 2016
NEW YORK – Citing an "extraordinary financial burden,'' two New York City officials are calling on the federal government to pay the cost of securing President-elect Donald Trump's family and home inside the Manhattan skyscraper that bears the incoming president's name.
December 3, 2016
NEW YORK – Citing an "extraordinary financial burden,'' two New York City officials are calling on the federal government to pay the cost of securing President-elect Donald Trump's family and home inside the Manhattan skyscraper that bears the incoming president's name.
A television news correspondent, right, reports live from Trump Tower on Dec. 2, 2016, in New York.
Melissa Mark Viverito, speaker of the New York City Council, and Councilman Dan Garodnick are petitioning the government to cover the estimated $1 million per day cost to secure Trump Tower, while the president-elect and family members are in residence there.
"Many, many ordinary New Yorkers whose taxes contribute to New York’s budget, strongly believe that the provision of security services for presidents-elect must be the obligation of the federal government,'' the city officials said. "And accordingly, we believe that the cost of that obligation must be borne by the federal government, not the city of New York.''
"We already stretch our municipal budget to provide basic services, like police, sanitation and the education of 1.1 million public school students,'' the officials said. "These services would suffer if we must divert funds to police protection.''
Courtesy: USA Today
