I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2414 
To limit the amount of expenditure on Presidential travel, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 11, 2017 
Mr. TED LIEU of California (for himself and Mr. NADLER) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Gov-
ernment Reform, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for 
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To limit the amount of expenditure on Presidential travel, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Stop Waste And Mis-
use by the President Act of 2017’’ or as the ‘‘SWAMP 
Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
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(1) Presidential travel to commercial entities 
owned in whole or in part by the President or First 
Family results in the American taxpayer effectively 
subsidizing the President’s businesses. 
(2) Given current expenditures, President 
Trump is on track to spend more during his first 
year of office than all eight years of the Obama ad-
ministration combined. 
(3) It is unacceptable for the President to 
maintain an interest in traveling to properties in 
which he has a direct financial interest, as the U.S. 
Government is responsible for renting space for per-
sonnel in said private commercial entities. 
(4) Every time the President travels to Mar-a- 
Lago, he necessarily promotes his private business 
interests via free press at the Government’s expense. 
(5) The State Department’s recent promotion 
of Mar-a-Lago on its official website raises serious 
ethics concerns. 
(6) As of April 14, 2017, President Trump has 
cost the U.S. taxpayer unprecedented amounts of 
money, including the following estimated costs: 
(A) For trips to Mar-a-Lago: 
(i) Total cost for security in Palm 
Beach: $3,700,000 (each trip). 
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(ii) Roundtrip flights from Joint Base 
Andrews, Maryland, to West Palm, Flor-
ida: $700,000. 
(iii) Overtime for local law enforce-
ment during Trump’s trips: $60,000/day. 
(iv) Total golf cart rentals ordered by 
the Secret Service ‘‘for POTUS visit’’: 
$35,185. 
(v) Estimated loss of business due to 
airport closure: $30,000/weekend. 
(B) For Trump Tower: 
(i) Request for additional Secret Serv-
ice funding to secure Trump Towers: 
$60,000,000. 
(ii) New York Police Department se-
curity costs: $127,000–$146,000/day. 
(iii) ‘‘Elevator services’’ ordered by 
the Secret Service: $64,000. 
(iv) Air Force One flights to New 
York City: $180,000/hour. 
(7) The proposed 2017 Federal spending bill in-
cludes reimbursements for millions of dollars spent 
by Florida and New York to protect the President 
and First Family, and facilitate their travel. While 
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localities should be reimbursed, the taxpayer should 
not be responsible for said reimbursement. 
SEC. 3. REIMBURSAL FOR COSTS OF PROTECTION. 
In the case of a person whom the United States Se-
cret Service is authorized to protect under paragraph (1) 
or (2) of section 3056(a) of title 18, United States Code, 
if that person, while traveling for official business or for 
personal purposes, stays in a hotel or other establishment 
providing daily-rate accommodation in which that person 
has an ownership or financial interest, that person shall 
reimburse to the Treasury— 
(1) any amount expended by the United States 
Secret Service for the provision of such protection; 
and 
(2) any amount expended for other costs in-
curred by the Government pertaining to that stay. 
Æ 
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