Scotland’s finance secretary is asking the UK for a $35-million reimbursement following visits from President Trump and Vice President Vance.
Secretary Shona Robison stated in a letter that Scotland incurred “substantial operational and financial burdens” that impacted public companies on account of these visits. That included the deployment of 4,000 whole officers when Trump visited the nation in July, adopted by Vance’s keep in August, in accordance with the Impartial.
Trump spent 4 days in Aberdeenshire and Ayrshire, the place he owns golf programs. Vance spent practically the identical period of time in Ayrshire and golfed on the president’s greens at Trump Turnberry. The visits reportedly price roughly $26.7 million and $8 million, respectively.
The U.Ok. stated Trump and Vance’s visits didn’t represent “UK Government business,” which places Scotland on the hook for safety bills.
Scotland contends the visits have been “diplomatically significant” and due to this fact require compensation.
“I am writing to you to request that you reconsider this decision and provide full reimbursement for the cost of the visits,” Robison wrote to her U.Ok. counterpart.
She argues that selecting up the tab for Trump and Vance’s journeys would put a pressure on Scottish assets. Officers there count on the matter to be additional negotiated.
“We love Scotland,” Trump informed onlookers in July when he reduce the ribbon opening his course in Aberdeenshire whereas flanked by his sons Eric and Donald Jr.
The president’s mom, Mary Anne MacLeod, was born in Scotland in 1912. She got here to the U.S. in 1929 and was made a citizen in 1942. MacLeod was a local Gaelic speaker who realized English as a second language, in accordance with NPR.
