Overbilling ping pong: New scrutiny of Biden rental to Secret Service as Dems target Trump hotels

President Joe Biden collected rent payments from the U.S. Secret Service long before former President Donald Trump took office in January, 2017.

It was reported in 2011 that Biden was charging the Secret Service $2,200 per month to stay in a cottage on his property in Wilmington, Del. The total payments made were $117,600, according to federal government spending records.

In August, the New York Post and other news outlets reported that the Secret Service is renting a mansion in Malibu near the home of Hunter Biden, the president's son, for $30,000 per month.

This week, House Democrats are criticizing the Trump Organization for the rates the company charged the Secret Service for hotel rooms booked for protecting Trump and his family members at properties that he owns.

The Associated Press reported that the House Oversight Committee found that the Secret Service was "charged room rates of more than $800 per night at least 11 times when agents stayed at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, the Trump hotel in Washington, D.C., and other properties."

The Secret Service also paid as much as $1,185 per night when Trump stayed at his company's Washington, D.C. hotel in 2017, the records reportedly showed. The hotel has since been sold.

The House Oversight Committee reportedly obtained records showing that $1.4 million in payments were made in total to the Trump Organization.

Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) said the rates charged were “exorbitant” and has asked the Secret Service for more information about the amounts paid.

Eric Trump, executive vice president at the Trump Organization, responded to the House Oversight Committee's findings.

"The Trump Family is likely the first family in American history to have not profited off of the United States government," he said. "President Trump funded the vast majority of his campaign with hundreds of millions of dollars of his own money and turned away billions of dollars in real estate deals worldwide."

Just the News asked the Secret Service if the agency has paid rent to the Biden family since January 2021 when the president took office. The Secret Service's media and communications office didn't respond to the request before press time.