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- ABC News
- Donald Trump
- August 6, 2019
El Paso waiting on Trump campaign to pay late bill
"We are reviewing it" the Trump campaign said in June.
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That 21% adds almost $100,000 to the Trump campaign's tab, bringing the total to almost $570,000.
\"As with any invoices we issue out, our expectation is to be paid for the services rendered,” Robert Cortinas, El Paso’s chief financial officer, told ABC News in a statement. “The City is fiscally responsible,” he said.
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If the Trump campaign does not pay, the city of El Paso says the money would have to come out of the city’s contingency budget -- funds used for unexpected and emergency situations, such as natural disasters. The more than half-million dollars is also equivalent to the annual salaries of several El Paso police officers - law enforcement the president praised in the wake of Saturday's mass shooting for responding with \"extraordinary grace and courage.\"
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Donald J. Trump for President Inc.'s now outstanding $569,204.63 balance due is about 63% of the city's contingency budget for the entire year.
ABC News has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment, but has not heard back.
In June, the campaign said it doubts El Paso's accounting, implying it's been overcharged.
\"Since 2015, the Trump Campaign has held nearly 550 rallies all over the country, and this invoice is roughly 10 times the amount that a locality generally asks to be reimbursed,\" Michael Glassner, chief operating officer with the Trump Campaign, told ABC News. \"We are reviewing it.\"
Indeed, other cities where the Trump campaign has held rallies, including Mesa, Arizona, billed for about $64,500 for a rally held there in October 2018. Mesa city officials told ABC News their police department still has received no reimbursement from the Trump campaign.
Campaigns failing to pay cities for their visits is not uncommon. During the 2016 election, the presidential campaigns of both Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders were also behind in several rally payments, according to the Center for Public Integrity.
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Trump himself has a long history of not paying his bills. Often boasting of his business success and touting his record as the \"Dealmaker in Chief,\" Trump has a trail of receipts and lawsuits that reflects a long line of personal debts shifted to businesses -- with the burden of multiple Chapter 11 filings falling on investors who bet on his business acumen. Numerous contractor lawsuits claim that Trump and his businesses have refused to pay them.
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This time, if the campaign doesn’t pay, El Paso would have to absorb the cost – even as it reels from dealing with a mass shooting.
ABC News' Will Steakin contributed to this report.
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