Thursday, March 28, 2024

Melania Trump Petition At Change.org is Super Popular, but So What? :( Will it Matter? Nope

melania trump (with donald in bgrd)

*Millions of folks are already tired of the Trump BS overall and whole lot of them are fed up with the crazy arrangement of Melania Trump living in New York at the tax payer’s expense instead of the White House with her husband.

In fact, there’s a petition at Change.org that’s exploding in popularity, attracting over 230,000 signatures (so far) and has become the site’s most signed campaign this week. The petition calls for her to either move to the White House or personally pay for her New York City security expenses.

“The U.S. taxpayer is paying an exorbitant amount of money to protect the First Lady in Trump Tower, located in New York City,” the petition reads. “As to help relieve the national debt, this expense yields no positive results for the nation and should be cut from being funded.”

As you can imagine, there are also thousands of comments on the petition’s page, as people speak their minds about what they believe to be a misuse of taxpayer dollars.

“Why should the U.S. taxpayer carry the burden for her security away from the [White House]?” one person asked on the site.

“This is money that could be going towards a better healthcare and education system,” another wrote. “This is money that should be invested in ALL of the American people.”

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Melania Trump, wife of Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, delivers a speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio.
Melania Trump delivers a speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016.

Last month, the Secret Service requested $60 million in additional funding to protect the president and his family, according to a report in the Washington Post.

The petition seeks to reach 300,000 signatures total and, per the page’s description, will be delivered as a letter to Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). Though liberal favorites, neither Sanders nor Warren is on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, which oversees the U.S. Secret Service budget.

Before you get your hopes up, here’s the bad news and the bottom line. Despite the swell of online attention, the overall efficacy of Change.org petitions remains questionable. Hundreds of thousands of signatures bring heightened visibility to the petitioner’s cause, but Secret Service budget allocations are not subject to popular vote.

You should also know that petitions launched on the White House website have similarly murky results; the White House promises it will review a petition if it gathers 100,000 signatures in 30 days, but there’s no guarantee of any further action.

 

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