Your hard-earned tax dollars have bankrolled a staggering $11 million tab for Hunter Biden’s Secret Service protection over three years.
Just The News reported that from January 1, 2022, to December 31, 2024, the Biden administration shelled out this jaw-dropping sum for travel, luxury hotels, and real estate expenses related to the former First Son’s security detail, as revealed by documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA).
Let’s dive into the numbers: nearly $9.3 million went to hotels, $1.1 million to air and rail travel, and about $600,000 to car rentals and transportation for Hunter Biden’s entourage.
Here’s a geographical tidbit—95% of these costs piled up in California, where Hunter Biden frequently resided during this period.
But the spending didn’t stop at state lines; extravagant trips to Nantucket, the Virgin Islands, and Santa Ynez, California, added to the taxpayer burden with eye-popping price tags.
Take the 2022 Thanksgiving getaway to Nantucket, where hundreds of thousands were spent, including $10,000 just on golf cart rentals and $120,000 on lodging with nightly rates of $740.
The following year’s Thanksgiving trip to Nantucket in 2023 blew past half a million dollars, with costs like $26,000 for ferries, another $10,000 for golf carts, and over $198,000 for lodging at the Faraway Nantucket alone.
Interestingly, during these Nantucket visits, Hunter Biden reportedly stayed at the estate of Democrat donor Joe Kiani, while the broader Biden family marked the holiday at billionaire David Rubenstein’s compound for three consecutive years.
Then there’s the New Year’s 2023 escape to St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, hosted at the home of Democratic donors Bill and Connie Neville, costing $372,000 for property expenses and another $372,000 for travel cards.
Other jaunts racked up hefty bills too, like $18,000 for a brief two-day trip to Santa Barbara and a staggering $650,000 for a Santa Ynez, California, excursion covering six hotels.
A quick day trip to New York City for Hunter Biden, his wife Melissa Cohen, and the family cost over $250,000 across 13 hotels, while a two-day stop in Wilmington, Delaware, hit taxpayers for more than $170,000.
“Hunter Biden was enjoying a robust detail wherever he traveled,” said CASA Director James Fitzpatrick, pointing to lavish trips while other security needs went unmet.
Let’s unpack that quote—while Hunter Biden jetted off to exotic locales, the Secret Service denied protection to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., despite his family’s tragic history with political violence.
Meanwhile, congressional probes have exposed serious lapses in Secret Service efforts to safeguard former President Donald Trump, including failures during two assassination attempts, compounded by chronic understaffing and agents missing critical training, as per a recent inspector general report.
“If the Biden Secret Service was truly low on funding and staffing as they claimed,” Fitzpatrick added, “the American people deserve answers” about these skewed priorities. And isn’t that the million-dollar question—why prioritize luxury getaways over pressing national security needs? It’s a bitter pill for taxpayers who expect fiscal responsibility, not a blank check for personal excursions.
