News item: The additional funding is to cover the costs associated with protecting the lifestyle of Mr. Trump and his family and to reimburse NYC and Palm Beach County in Florida where his Mar-a-Lago resort is situated.

Another $23 million would specifically go toward covering the costs of outfitting Trump Tower with the necessary equipment and personnel, as well as to rent space inside the building for agency personnel

Well, isn’t that just ducky. The American taxpayer not only has to pay for security for the man and his family as they circumnavigate the world chasing dollars for his business empire (you know, the one he’s refused to divest despite constitutional requirements that he do so), but we get to pay freakin’ rent to the bum for the space Secret Service agents need to keep him and his family from attack.

Swell.

Yet I recall that a couple of weeks ago his Budget Director said this about PBS:

“When you start looking at places that we reduce spending, one of the questions we asked was can we really continue to ask a coal miner in West Virginia or a single mom in Detroit to pay for these programs? The answer was no,” Mulvaney said Thursday morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “We can ask them to pay for defense, and we will, but we can’t ask them to continue to pay for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.”

Let’s divert the funds to where the most people can benefit from their use. I value PBS a helluva lot more than I do Trump, his tower, or his family.