From Just The News: The Biden administration spent more than $10 million over three years on a security detail and related expenses for former First Son Hunter Biden after denying similar protections to other high-profile political figures, documents obtained by the Center to Advance Security in America and shared exclusively with The Center Square show.
The security detail for former President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, cost nearly $11 million, including on travel, real estate and expensive hotels, according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request CASA filed.
The documents from Jan. 1, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2024, indicate that the Biden administration spent nearly $9.3 million on hotels, $1.1 million on air and rail travel, and nearly $600,000 on car transportation and rentals for Hunter Biden’s Secret Service detail.
The report notes that 95% of all the Secret Service expenses for Hunter Biden were incurred in California, where he lived.
However, the report also details jaw-dropping amounts spent when Hunter jetted off to the Virgin Islands, or to Nantucket, an exclusive island off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
A 2022 Thanksgiving trip to Nantucket included:
- $10,000 on golf cart rentals
- $120,000 on lodging with $740 nightly hotel rates
- $120,000 on travel cards
And a 2023 Thanksgiving trip to Nantucket included the following expenditures:
- $26,000 on ferries
- $10,000 on golf cart rentals
- $36,000 on Salt House Nantucket lodging
- $133,500 on White Elephant Hotel lodging
- $198,000 on Faraway Nantucket lodging
- $161k on The Beachside Hotel lodging
- $60,000 on Nantucket Inn lodging,
Just The News also shares details on other trips taken at tax-payer expense by Hunter Biden and his wife, Melissa Cohen. Some examples:
- A New Year’s trip to St. Croix cost $372,000 for real estate property and $372,000 for travel cards
- $18,000 for a two-day trip to Santa Barbara
- $10,000 for one night in Arlington, Virginia;
- Over $170,000 for a two-day trip to Wilmington, Delaware
- Over $250,000 on 13 hotels for a Biden family and Cohen day trip to New York City
- Nearly $650,000 for a trip to Santa Ynex, Calif, for six hotels
RNC Research blasted Hunter in one post in June 2023, writing, “Here is deadbeat Hunter Biden — embroiled in a massive, family-wide corruption scandal — rubbing elbows at last night’s White House state dinner.”
It was reportedly on the same day bombshell revelations tying his father, Joe Biden, to potential financial crimes were exposed.
The event was also just days after agreeing to plead guilty on federal tax charges.
Here is deadbeat Hunter Biden — embroiled in a massive, family-wide corruption scandal — rubbing elbows at last night’s White House state dinner pic.twitter.com/tyWXWgXTUu
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 23, 2023
EXCLUSIVE: Secret Service spent $11 million on Hunter Biden travel detail https://t.co/UixX6cvrOx
— Just the News (@JustTheNews) September 7, 2025
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According to the New York Post, before leaving office, Joe Biden had issued an executive memorandum which extended Secret Service protection for his son ***indefinitely.***
President Donald Trump terminated Hunter’s Secret Service protection in March.
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