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WASHINGTON – The US Underground Service spent more than $105 meg protecting President Obama and his family during their eight years in White House on non-essential travel, co-ordinate new documents released Thursday.

Some the nigh expensive ventures were the Obama family trip to Martha's Vineyard in August 2016, which price $two.seven one thousand thousand for Secret Service in hotels, rental cars and other travel cots.

The last family trip to Hawaii for Christmas toll the Secret Service $ane.viii million in taxpayer money.

And Obama's trip to Orlando to announced at a Hillary Clinton rally in November 2016 came with a $271,000 tab for taxpayers, according to travel documents obtained by Judicial Watch through public records litigation.

"It is troubling to see such massive amounts of coin paid out for trips that announced to have minimal value to the public interest," Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement.

"And it is frustrating to have to file multiple FOIA lawsuits and engage in long-running courtroom battles to get basic information about the costs of presidential travel."

The travel totals don't encompass the actual hotel and catering expenses for the president or his family, just the bare minimum costs for the men and women sworn to protect them. Judicial Watch focused on trips they deemed non-essential, such every bit golfing, vacations, fundraisers, campaign stops and talk show appearances.

President Trump is on track to run upwards a hefty Underground Service pecker as well.

So far, he'south cost taxpayers at least $iv million. Nigh of that is because of his frequent trips to his personal Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago.

Betwixt Feb. three and March 27, the Secret Service spent $iii.vi million on hotel costs, car rentals, transportation and supplies so Trump could jet away to his wintertime White Firm. That included $19,760 that benefited the Trump family unit business directly in Mar-a-Lago hotel costs.

Trump's "Cheers" tour rallies during the transition flow of Nov. 9 to Dec. 12, 2016 cost $475,000, Judicial Sentry records show.

The conservative watchdog group has called for presidents to curb frivolous travel and save taxpayers money.