It costs taxpayers $1.4B a yr to fund White House

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How it costs taxpayers $1.4 billion a year to fund the White House
Submitted by Michael RinoRemover on Thu, 09/27/2012 - 07:42
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Daily Caller

Alex Pappas

4:26 PM 10/08/2012

A book about presidential perks recently revealed that taxpayers spend about $1.4 billion paying for the staffing, housing, transportation and entertaining of President Barack Obama’s White House.

Now another author, John F. Groom, explains in “The 1.4 Billion Dollar Man: Costs of the Obama White House” exactly how researchers came up with that $1.4 billion estimate.

“One of the most important things to note about the $1.4 billion figure is that it specifically does NOT include the cost of running the White House’s policy operations – the $1.4 billion is money that is directly related to the president and his family,” Groom writes in the book.

Here’s the breakdown, according to Groom:

• President’s salary and allowance: $450,000• White House building operating expenses: $14,658,000• White House Grounds: $6,057,000• Vacations: $20,000,000• Health care for the first family, including traveling medical staff and equipment: $7,000,000• Campaign expenses not reimbursed to government: $311,000,000• White House staff: $7,985,420• Office of Administration budget: $14,481,000• Special missions including White House Communications Agency: $161,252,000• Military salary costs: $153,441,360• Salary costs for presidential airlift squadron: $75,000,000• Presidential plane fleet: $44,000,000• Presidential helicopter fleet: $300,000,000• Ground transportation: $2,200,000• Transportation total: $346,200,000• Secret Service: $259,152,884

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