Trump’s administration is the most expensive in history. Let’s begin with the man at the top. Trump’s immediate family is spending $16,333,333.33 each month to continue their lives of luxury and privilege. His tax reform bill will increase the national debt by $1.8 trillion. After two months in office his family cost the Secret Service so much money they were forced to ask for a huge increase in their budget.

Tom Price was Trump’s first Secretary of Health and Human Services. After multiple flights on private and military aircraft, he was forced to resign. This was more common than anyone knew at that time.

Scott Pruitt, is the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. He spent tens of thousands of dollars remodeling his offices and adding expensive and unnecessary security devices. He chooses to travel on scheduled airlines, but only in first class. He spends five times what it would cost to fly in coach. He says that his choice is based on ‘security issues,’ but those in the know claim that it is because he feels that he is superior to ordinary travelers and refuses to associate with them.

Ben Carson is another failure. He is Trump’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. He knows nothing, but his skin is black; that’s his only qualification. He complained about the $5,000 he was allowed to spend redecorating his office. He ordered his assistant to ‘find more money.’

In a November 2017 complaint obtained by CNN, Helen Foster said she was told to “find money” beyond the legal $5,000 limit for redecorating. In one instance, she says a supervisor said that “$5,000 will not even buy a decent chair.”

Trump’s cabinet and other heads of agencies are billionaires and millionaires. Plutocracy is alive and well in Trump’s White House. Why aren’t conservatives screaming? Hypocrisy.

All of Trump’s family and staff waste more money than any other administration in American history. Corruption is acceptable in Trump’s circle of sinners.

We cannot afford Trump. He has lived the life of a wealthy man all of his decrepit life, and often said that he loves ‘spending other people’s money.’ He’s doing a damn good job of doing just that.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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