Jared Kushner may no longer be an unpaid senior adviser to his father-in-law, former President Donald Trump, but he is still costing American taxpayers lots of money. Back in January, the outgoing president made a last-minute move to make sure that Secret Service protection was extended to 14 family members for six months after they left office. We are now seeing some of the costly tab of Trump’s political maneuver.
The Daily Beast has obtained a federal acquisitions document that revealed the State Department recently forked over $12,950 for Kushner’s Secret Service security team to protect him while he was staying at the Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi. No competitive bids for other hotels were taken into consideration and the document stated, “The selection was based on the Former Senior Advisor to the President of the United States, JARED KUSHNER [sic] decision and the high security level the hotel provides.”