Trump administration is currently pushing back against a proposed provision that would require the Secret Service to disclose how much it's spending on presidential travel—at least until after voters go to the polls in November.
The Secret Service is required to report semiannually the cost of protecting the president's primary non-White House residence, the Trump administration failed to do so in either 2016 or 2017, and has been delayed in submitting subsequent reports. The White House also dodged questions from Congress's Government Accountability Office about the issue for two years, after the GAO sought information on the cost of Trump's travel to Mar-a-Lago based on a question in Congress.
the agency is likely running up a hefty bill. The GAO found that Trump's first four trips to Mar-a-Lago as president in 2017 cost the Secret Service approximately $1.3 million per trip (and $3.4 million in total government spending), and the Secret Service requested $60 million in additional funding in 2017. Federal charge card expenditures revealed the Secret Service also spent at least $250,000 at Trump properties in just the first five months of Trump's term alone, and the