--- title: Donald Trump's Protection Costing New York $1 Million a Day description: Protecting Donald Trump and his family members costs New York City more than $1 million every day canonical: https://time.com/4579340/new-york-city-trump-protect-money/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-21T22:30:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:57:08.932Z article:section: Politics og:title: New York City Will Spend $1 Million a Day to Protect Trump and His Family og:description: City police have been assigned to protect Trump and his family og:url: https://time.com/4579340/new-york-city-trump-protect-money/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab148b432c5d8ce8/6988af58ab6d779f616ac07b/trump-tower-nypd-cost.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President-Elect Donald Trump Holds Meetings At His Trump Tower Residence In New York og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New York City Will Spend $1 Million a Day to Protect Trump and His Family twitter:description: City police have been assigned to protect Trump and his family twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab148b432c5d8ce8/6988af58ab6d779f616ac07b/trump-tower-nypd-cost.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New York City Will Spend $1 Million a Day to Protect Donald Trump and His Family by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Nov 21, 2016 10:30 PM UTC  An officer with a police canine unit walks past the elevator bank at Trump Tower in New York City on Nov. 21, 2016. An officer with a police canine unit walks past the elevator bank at Trump Tower in New York City on Nov. 21, 2016.Kevin Hagen—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Nov 21, 2016 10:30 PM UTC Protecting Donald Trump and his family members costs New York City more than $1 million every day, city officials said. The expenses come as city police have been assigned to Trump, his adult children and his grandchildren, who all live in New York and can receive Secret Service protection, NYPD deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism John Miller [told WCBS](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tower-security-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-isis-terror-threat-nypd-john-miller/) on Monday. The steep costs are not expected to dip very much once Trump is inaugurated because his wife, Melania Trump, and their 10-year-old son, Barron, are [not moving to the White House](http://fortune.com/2016/11/20/melania-barron-trump-white-house/), at least until Barron is done with school, [CNN Money reported](http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/21/news/protecting-donald-trump/index.html). Trump has also said he plans to frequently return to New York. NYPD officers are protecting Trump and his family through security posts around Trump Tower and by assisting Secret Service at screening checkpoints. **_(Gifts:_** [**_The 100 Most Influential Images of All Time_**](http://shop.time.com/storefront/subscribe-to-time/link/1039114.html?xid=cm-TIMEShopscTIMEArticle)**_)_** “This is a very substantial undertaking. It will take substantial resources,” New York Mayor Bill de Blasio [told reporters](http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/21/news/protecting-donald-trump/index.html) on Friday. “We will begin the conversation with federal government shortly on reimbursement for the NYPD for some of the costs that we are incurring.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4579340/new-york-city-trump-protect-money/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4579340/new-york-city-trump-protect-money/"},"headline":"New York City Will Spend $1 Million a Day to Protect Donald Trump and His Family","datePublished":"2016-11-21T22:30:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:57:08.932Z","description":"City police have been assigned to protect Trump, his adult children and his grandchildren","url":"https://time.com/4579340/new-york-city-trump-protect-money/","keywords":["Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab148b432c5d8ce8/6988af58ab6d779f616ac07b/trump-tower-nypd-cost.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltab148b432c5d8ce8/6988af58ab6d779f616ac07b/trump-tower-nypd-cost.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President-Elect Donald Trump Holds Meetings At His Trump Tower Residence In New York","caption":"President-Elect Donald Trump Holds Meetings At His Trump Tower Residence In New York","creditText":"Kevin Hagen—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4579340/new-york-city-trump-protect-money/","name":"New York City Will Spend $1 Million a Day to Protect Donald Trump and His Family"}}]}] ```