Footing the Bill for Trumps.... Gail Collins

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Footing the Bill for Trumps


Gail Collins FEB. 10, 2017

All these Trumps are getting damned expensive.

Last month, taxpayers forked over nearly $100,000 to protect Eric Trump while he was on a business trip to Uruguay. And the Defense Department is looking to rent space in Trump Tower — which goes for as much as $1.5 million a year per floor — so they can bring the nuclear launch codes along when the president comes to visit his wife in New York.

The mere idea of Donald Trump and the nuclear codes is way more disturbing than the money. But still, critics claim that Melania Trump’s decision not to move into the White House is costing the country more in security than the annual budget for the National Endowment for the Arts.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/opinion/footing-the-bill-for-trumps.html?ref=opinion

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National Endowment for the Arts Appropriations History
Year    Appropriation1
1966    $ 2,898,308
1967    $ 8,475,692
1968    $ 7,774,291
1969    $ 8,456,875
1970    $ 9,055,000
1971    $ 16,420,000
1972    $ 31,480,000
1973    $ 40,857,000
1974    $ 64,025,000
1975    $ 80,142,000
1976    $ 87,455,000
1976T2    $ 35,301,000
1977    $ 99,872,000
1978    $ 123,850,000
1979    $ 149,585,000
1980    $ 154,610,000
1981    $ 158,795,000
1982    $ 143,456,000
1983    $ 143,875,000
1984    $ 162,223,000
1985    $ 163,660,000
1986    $ 158,822,240
1987    $ 165,281,000
1988    $ 167,731,000
1989    $ 169,090,000
1990    $ 171,255,000
1991    $ 174,080,737
1992    $ 175,954,680
1993    $ 174,459,382
1994    $ 170,228,000
1995    $ 162,311,000
1996    $ 99,470,000
1997    $ 99,494,000
1998    $ 98,000,000
1999    $ 97,966,000
2000    $ 97,627,600
2001    $104,769,000
2002    $115,220,000
2003    $115,731,000
2004    $120,971,000
2005    $121,263,000
2006    $124,406,353
2007    $124,561,844
2008    $144,706,800
20093    $155,000,000
2010    $167,500,000
2011    $154,690,000
2012    $146,020,992
20134    $138,383,218
2014    $146,021,000
2015    $146,021,000
2016        $147,949,000

https://www.arts.gov/open-government/national-endowment-arts-appropriations-history