CABINET/EDUCATION/TRUMP PEOPLE/BETSY DEVOS: “An unusual security arrangement for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is costing taxpayers upwards of $1 million per month.
Citing a determination that ‘a threat to the secretary’s safety exists,’ the US Marshals Service said it would continue providing her a security detail, though it would not detail the nature of the threat.
The marshals began protecting DeVos days after protesters blocked a doorway and prevented her from entering a middle school near her office in Washington.
The agreement has the Education Department reimbursing the marshals $7.78 million this fiscal year, which works out to nearly $34,000 per day. It covers from February 13, when marshals began providing her security, and extends through September 30, the end of the government’s fiscal year, Lynzey Donahue, a spokeswoman for the marshals, told CNN on Friday…
The size of the protection team for DeVos is ‘commensurate with the existing threat and based on USMS protective service requirements, experience and methodology,’ Donahue said, but declined to provide further details.”
-Gregory Wallace, “US Marshals providing rare security for Secretary DeVos,” CNN Politcs, CNN.com, April 10, 2017 4:41pm