Secret Service agents are willing to take a bullet for those they protect. But apparently they’re not good enough to use one of the six bathrooms in Jared and Ivanka’s Washington home. According to a report in the Washington Post, when they needed to use the restroom while stationed at Ivanka Trump’s home, they were “instructed not to use any of the half-dozen bathrooms inside the couple’s house.” Instead according to neighbors and law enforcement officials agents spent “months searching for a reliable restroom to use on the job.”
The Washington Post says after months of juggling bathrooms, in September 2017 “the federal government has been spending $3,000 a month — more than $100,000 to date —to rent a basement studio, with a bathroom, from a neighbor of the Kushner family.”
A White House spokesperson reportedly denied that agents were restricted from using the bathroom inside the first daughter’s home saying “it was the Secret Service’s decision not to allow the protective detail inside.” But the newspaper’s sources stand by their account.
Republicans who single out budget items to malign federal spending (remember “something called volcano monitoring”?) won’t make a peep about the government wasting $100,000+ because Jared and Ivanka wouldn’t let Secret Service agents use their bathrooms. https://t.co/mhx0uDAN7Q
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjs_DC) January 14, 2021