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Biden Delaware trips cost about $3M in Secret Service alone


Americans may be grappling with how to put food on the table amid a sharp rise in the cost of everyday goods — but you’d never know it from the tab President Biden has racked up on their dime.

Biden’s choice of regular weekend and a few midweek trips home to Delaware have cost nearly $3 million in security alone, Secret Service expense records shared with The Post show.

Biden’s security detail spent $1.96 million on 16 trips to his Delaware homes this year, the records indicate. Another nine trips aren’t yet counted and likely push the total to $3 million.

Those 25 trips have been racked up in just 43 weeks in office.

And the true price tag to taxpayers is higher because the Pentagon hasn’t released costs for Air Force One and Marine One helicopter trips.

“Most Americans know that Biden is being hidden because he isn’t fit for office,” a former Trump White House official taunted. “What they may not realize is that they’re paying insane amounts of money for him to be tucked into bed in Delaware every weekend.”

Marine One carrying U.S. President Joe Biden departs the South Lawn of the White House on Friday, July 9, 2021 in Washington, D.C.
President Joe Biden has racked up nearly $3 million in Secret Service security for his numerous trips to Delaware, according to records.
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The documented expenses mostly cover hotels and rental cars for Secret Service agents, as well as airfare and train tickets for them to reach Delaware.

“The costs of presidential travel and security is of obvious public interest,” said Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, which acquired the records under the Freedom of Information Act.

Fitton noted that the records are incomplete and said “it is frustrating that after years of litigation through two presidential administrations, the Secret Service and Air Force are still stonewalling the costs of presidential travel.”

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden ride bicycles in Cape Henlopen State Park in Lewes, Delaware on June 3, 2021.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden ride bicycles in Cape Henlopen State Park in Lewes, Delaware, over the summer.
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Presidents have widely varying weekend habits. Former President Donald Trump regularly left the White House on weekends to visit his resorts. But Biden’s former boss, President Barack Obama, rarely took personal weekend trips.

The Secret Service tab of roughly $3 million for the 77 days Biden visited his Delaware homes far outpaces the $2.4 million in Secret Service costs to protect Trump during the 99 days he spent at his Bedminster, NJ, golf course over four years.

But costs incurred by agencies other than the Secret Service can dramatically increase costs. For example, four Trump stays at his coastal Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida in early 2017 cost $13.6 million — $10.6 million of which was for official aircraft and boats. Each Trump trip cost the Coast Guard about $1 million.

President Joe Biden walks with his son, Hunter, as he carries grandson Beau next Melissa Cohen (center) before boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland on March 26, 2021.
President Joe Biden walks with his son, Hunter, as he carries grandson Beau next wife Melissa Cohen (center) before boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland on March…



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