Trump's Secret Service detail to pay $600K for golf carts and port-a-potties to use at his New Jersey club [View all]
Source: Independent
The Secret Service is allocating more than $600,000 to rent golf carts and portable toilets for use in Bedminster, New Jersey, the home of President Donald Trump’s private country club, according to a review of government procurement data by The Independent.
On June 3, the agency signed a pair of definitive contracts with Associates Golf Car Service of Poughkeepsie, New York, and Restroom Resources LLC of Wrightstown, New Jersey, federal records show.
The agreement with Associates Golf Car Service Inc., for ‘Golf Car Rental and Transportation Services,” is worth a potential $550,930 and runs through June 2, 2026. Restroom Resources’s work order for “portable restroom rentals and services” is worth up to $80,385, runs through May 31, 2026, and comes with a three-year renewal option, for a potential total of $333,801. Taxpayers, as is customary, will be footing both bills.
Secret Service agents in golf carts normally ride several holes ahead of and behind Trump when he hits the links, in order to ensure his security. And while it is unclear exactly how the portable restrooms will be used, they are presumably for the convenience of agents on the property and not because they are banned from using the facilities inside, as they were rumored to be at the 5,000 square-foot Washington, D.C. spread rented by First Daughter Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner in 2017.
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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-golf-carts-secret-service-bedminster-b2779793.html
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