Melania Trump: is the first lady too expensive?
A petition proposes to the wife of the president, who resides in New York, to come to live in Washington or to pay her own security costs.
The enigmatic First Lady of the United States is still talking about her. As we learned that elected officials in Florida were complaining about the visits of the presidential couple and that the Trump family is very expensive in power, more than 225,000 people had signed a petition on Wednesday asking the first lady of the United States to pay herself the costs considered high for her security in New York or to come and live in the White House. "The taxpayer pays an exorbitant sum of money to protect the first lady in the Trump Tower located in New York", argue the signatories on the site change.org. When it comes to helping debt relief, they argue, "this expenditure is not producing any positive results for the country and should no longer be funded."
$ 24 million in protection
The petition, initialed at around 5:30 p.m. (9:30 p.m. GMT) on Wednesday by some 225,500 people, will be delivered to Democratic Left-wing Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Melania Trump had made it known that she would stay in New York with her son Barron until the end of the school year.
His protection and that of his son cost between 127,000 and 146,000 dollars per day to the New York police, said the chief of the latter, James O'Neill, in a letter to elected officials of the city dated February 21. Protecting the presidential family between the election of Donald Trump on November 8, 2016 and taking office on January 20 cost $ 24 million, or about $ 308,000 per day, said James O'Neill.
