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Donald Trump willing to fund White House tours

Politico
Kevin Cirilli
3/11/2013

Excerpt:

Donald Trump said Monday that he’d be willing to foot the bill for the White House tours that President Barack Obama’s administration nixed because of sequestration budget cuts.

Last week, Newt Gingrich recommended that Trump fund the tours, tweeting:

Donald trump should offer to pay for the white house tours. He can afford it and it would show who cares more for American students

“I think it’s so nice of Newt to suggest that, I don’t know anything about it… . I like Newt a lot,” Trump said Monday on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends. “I didn’t hear this, but it sounds reasonable to me. Why not?”

Trump said that he thinks the tours were canceled to prove a political point.

“I guess it’s political. They want to hurt the people … If you look at what’s going on, I guess they’re trying to make a political point. It’s just really ridiculous. I don’t think it’s a big deal, frankly. But it does make us look awfully bad and awfully pathetic,” Trump said.
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Obama Spurns Trump Offer to Foot White House Tours

Newsmax
Kenneth Hanner
3/13/2013

Excerpt:

Even as a top senior presidential adviser dismissed Donald Trump’s offer to pay to resume tours at the White House, President Obama said he would try to reopen the doors in time for spring-break school groups.

White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer ruled out the billionaire businessman’s offer to pay for the tours that were closed down due to the recent sequester’s across-the-board spending cuts.

“The Donald Trump option is not an option— what we have to do is deal with the sequester,” Pfeiffer said on CNN.

But Obama expressed concern about groups of school children headed for the nation’s capital during the upcoming spring break.

In an interview with ABC News broadcast on Wednesday, the president said he was talking with Secret Service officials about restoring some visits.
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