The cost of Betsy DeVoss security detail nearly $8 million over nearly 8 months

[Cattledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/the-cost-of-betsy-devoss-security-detail-1-million-per-month/2017/04/07/efa01488-1ade-11e7-9887-1a5314b56a08_story.html?utm_term=.2194aa21fa93

Federal marshals are protecting Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at a cost to her agency of nearly $8 million over nearly eight months, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.

The Education Department has agreed to reimburse the marshals $7.78 million for their services from mid-February to the end of September, according to a spokeswoman for the Marshals Service — an amount that works out to an average of about $1 million per month.

Marshals will continue providing security for the education secretary for the next four years, or until either agency decides to terminate the arrangement, under an agreement signed last week. There was no information immediately available about what that would cost beyond September.

While the department is spending the additional money on DeVos’s security, members of the in-house security team that guarded previous secretaries remain on the payroll. But they are not guarding DeVos and have not been assigned new duties, according to a department employee who was not authorized to speak to a reporter and asked for anonymity.

[Solly Mack]

1. She can pay for her own security since it was her own mouth (and actions)

that garnered so much disdain from the people. And that happened before she bought her office.

Fuck all these people. They'll bankrupt the country with their protection details alone.

Miserable, hate-filled bladder cancers all.

[NightWatcher]

2. Why is she being guarded? Sounds like an ego tripper.

[shraby]

3. If she needs security as Education Secretary, she's the wrong person in the job.

Nuff said.

[Turbineguy]

4. Why waste money

on educating kids?

[spanone]

5. why the hell does the education secretary need ANY security????

[mshasta]

6. She can call her brothers black water bodyguards

also she has money to pay for her own security....

[Freethinker65]

7. Actually surprised she has not funneled taxpayer $$$$ back to her brother yet.

Then she could drain $$$$ from the department of Education as well as line her relatives' pockets.