Mayor de Blasio billing White House $35M to cover cost of securing Trump Tower

Mayor de Blasio is sending the Obama administration a $35 million bill for the cost of securing Trump Tower from the time President-elect Donald Trump won the race through Jan. 20 — an average of over $400,000 a day, officials said Monday. De Blasio has repeatedly said he expects the city to be paid back for the huge costs of providing security for the new First Family. Because the NYPD can't decrease security in other parts of the city, cops around Trump Tower are "primarily [working] on an overtime basis." Municipal or state resources should not be subsidizing the President-Elect's decision to maintain multiple permanent residences. The simplest solution would be for the First Family to relocate to Washington, D.C. rather than maintaining a second, full-time residence. City taxpayers shouldn't be paying these costs and it seems reasonable to ask President-elect Trump to chip in or foot the bill.