New York Daily News

Blaz bills Bam $35M to protect Trump

- BY JENNIFER FERMINO, ERIN DURKIN and CAMERON JOSEPH

MAYOR DE BLASIO is sending the Obama administra­tion a $35 million bill for the cost of securing Trump Tower from the time President-elect Donald Trump won the vote through Jan. 20 — an average of more than $450,000 a day, officials said Monday.

De Blasio announced the large sum — the first time he’s ever put a definitive figure on the security costs for Trump — at a press conference in Manhattan with Police Commission­er James O’Neill. He also sent a letter to President Obama and Congress laying out the burden on the city.

“We are going to be continuing very aggressive­ly in the course of the next few days . . . to nail down the reimbursem­ents,” said de Blasio, who wants a promise from the White House to pick up the tab before Obama leaves office.

The $35 million bill he’s asking Obama for only includes Trump’s transition which runs from through Jan. 20.

The mayor said he also spoke with Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, about security reimbursem­ent costs after Trump takes office.

The two had a “good conversati­on,” de Blasio said. “He’s a native New Yorker, so I think that is a helpful reality,” he said.

De Blasio has repeatedly said he expects the city to be reimbursed for the costs of providing security for the new First Family, who live in crowded period, Nov. 8 Midtown Manhattan.

But as the Daily News reported Sunday, other municipali­ties have struggled to be reimbursed, and the cost of monitoring a hometown President can be a huge budget drain.

The city’s letter to Obama, signed by de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, called the security costs “unpreceden­ted” and said cops around Trump Tower are “primarily (working) on an overtime basis.”

It also points out that the city

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