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Jaymie Vaz

‘Wasteful Spending’: Donald Trump spends $200M on golf, while GOP guts cancer research and begs for another $200B to bomb Middle East

The White House is currently seeking an additional $200 billion for the ongoing war in Iran, a request that comes with reports that President Trump has spent over $100 million on golf trips since his return to office. That is an insane amount of money, but it gets worse when you consider the fact that the Trump Administration cut cancer research by calling it ‘wasteful spending.’

According to Huffpost, Trump’s golf habit has now cost taxpayers at least $101.2 million in travel and security expenses since his return to office. This figure is already two-thirds of his entire first-term golf total, putting him on track to spend $300 million by the end of his second term. Jordan Libowitz from the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington criticized this spending. 

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