Mar-a-Lago charged Secret Service agents $650 a night for rooms while they were guarding Trump

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President Trump's vacations have come with a lot of extra baggage — and it's all being charged to American taxpayers.

It's no surprise that Trump's trips to his properties around the world have been costly, with bills for his Mar-a-Lago trips likely totaling at least $1 million every time he visits. But a new report from The Washington Post details just how exorbitant those charges have been, and how it's not exactly true that the Trump Organization is only charging "minimal fees" for every trip.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.