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Secret Service agents rented a $ 3,000 studio apartment at the taxpayer's expense near the home of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, after being instructed not to use the bathroom in their home.
The service denied that the agents' access to the couple's toilet was denied: "Every effort is made to secure without harming the household."
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Saturday, 16 January 2021, 02:55
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Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, senior White House advisers (Photo: AP)
U.S. Secret Service agents assigned to guard Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, daughter and son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump, who also serve as top advisers to the president, rented a studio apartment for thousands of dollars after being banned from using the couple's restroom, the Washington Post reported.
The paper reported that the rent, estimated at $ 3,000 a month, was paid at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer.
According to the report, agents were instructed not to use any of the six restrooms in the couple's home located in the Clorama neighborhood - an upscale neighborhood located in Washington.
It was also reported that before renting the apartment, the agents tried to find many solutions, including the use of toilets in the house of Vice President Mike Pence, which is located a little less than a kilometer from the couple's home.
In 2017, the agents began renting the studio apartment, in order to solve the problem of unavailability of the services.
The requested rent was $ 3,000 a month, which amounted to more than one hundred thousand dollars to date.
The amount was paid by the federal government in the country.
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Agents were instructed not to use the toilets in their home.
Jared and Ivanka (Photo: AP)
CNN reported that the studio apartment rented by the administration offered agents access to services, and also provided offices with Internet and office supplies.
In addition, there is an area in the apartment where they can stay during breaks from the long shifts.
A spokesman for the Secret Service said the Kushners did not prevent agents from accessing their home, as well as access to toilets.
"The Secret Service makes every effort, especially in the couple's home, to provide maximum protection with as little impact on the household as possible. Accordingly, agents do not request access to rooms and toilets in the home," the spokesman said.
White House spokeswoman Kylie McNanny said it was a lie.
"Back in 2017 Ivanka and Jared made it clear that their home would always be open to the amazing agents who protect them," she said.
According to her, the agents were transferred to the studio apartment, in light of the Secret Service's decision to grant them separate accommodations.
"Agents do not request access to rooms and toilets in the home."
US Secret Service official (Photo: Reuters)
"The couple respects the men and women who protect them and their home, and also share respect for the secret service in the country," she added.
"Their home will always be open to them, and they have been immensely grateful for their service for the past four years."
When the couple first moved into the apartment, neighbors complained that they and their agents were "taking over the street."
"It disrupts the routine as if they had set up a business here in a quiet residential neighborhood," one of the couple's neighbors, Marty Robinson, said in the past.
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