allowance soon proved inadequate. By August 2017, the Secret Service reported it had exhausted both its budget and its agents’ human capacity for overtime work. Facing a wave of resignations and retirements, the Secret Service asked Congress to raise the cap on agents’ pay and overtime from $160,000 to $187,000. Kevin Johnson reported in USA Today: The president’s jaunts to Mar-a-Lago are estimated to cost at least $3 million each, based on a General Accounting Office estimate for similar travel by former President Obama. The Secret Service has spent some $60,000 on golf cart rentals alone
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