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Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump
Reprinted with permission from Alternet
The U.S. Secret Service will protect former President Donald Trump and more than a dozen members of his family, including extended family members, after the 45th President, defying usual agency regulations, ordered the expanded protections.
<p>"Trump issued a directive to extend post-presidency Secret Service protection to 14 members of his family who were not automatically entitled to receive it," <em><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-extended-secret-service-protection-for-13-members-of-his-family-as-he-left-office/2021/01/20/31ef3e9e-5b3c-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Washington Post</a> </em>reports.</p><p>Taxpayers will be on the hook for the millions of dollars the additional protections will cost, even after the Trump family decimated the protective agency's budget over the past four to five years.</p><script id="3d14008d7e044c36b256c61ff82728bb">
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</script><p>Once a president leaves office he or she, their spouse, and children up until they reach the age of 16 are entitled to Secret Service protection. Protection for the president and spouse is for the rest of their lives.</p><p>But Trump has demanded every family member who has ever been covered to continue receiving protection, for the next six months.</p><div class="inarticle_ad_placeholder" data-aa-adunit="/5931858/NatMemo_RM/NatMemo_Middle_Desktop_2" data-aaad="true"></div>
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<div id="vid"></div>"That means the expensive, taxpayer-funded security will continue for his daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, their three children, his son Donald Trump Jr. and his five children, his son Eric Trump and his wife Lara and his daughter Tiffany Trump," the <em>Post </em>explains<p>In just the first two years of his presidency Trump and his family members who are protected by the Secret Service took more than 4500 trips.</p><p>Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) on Wednesday <a href="https://twitter.com/CREWcrew/status/1351862134280491012" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">noted</a> that "the Trump family took more trips that required Secret Service protection in one year than the Obama family took in seven."</p>
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