Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner spent $100K of taxpayer money renting a bathroom so Secret Service agents didn't have to use theirs

<p><img src="https://static2.businessinsider.com/image/60007bb7a81ea100188db3dd-2400/GettyImages-1288454680.jpg" border="0" alt="jared and ivanka" data-mce-source="Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images" data-mce-caption="Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump walk on the south lawn of the White House on November 29, 2020."></p><p></p><bi-shortcode id="summary-shortcode" data-type="summary-shortcode" class="mceNonEditable" contenteditable="false">Summary List Placement</bi-shortcode><p>Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump's eldest daughter, and her husband Jared Kushner, a top aide to the president, have spent about $100,000 on bathroom accommodations for their Secret Service detail after prohibiting the agents from using the bathrooms in their Washington mansion, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/14/secret-service-bathroom-ivanka-trump-jared-kushner/">reported</a> Thursday.&nbsp;</p><p>Law enforcement officials told The Post that the president's daughter and son-in-law barred the Secret Service from using their 6.5 bathrooms when they first moved into their home in DC's wealthy Kalorama neighborhood in 2017. Instead, they offered the agents a porta-potty outside on the sidewalk.</p><p>But after multiple neighbors complained about the porta-potty, the agents were forced to relieve themselves at a bathroom in former President Barack Obama's garage nearby, at the vice president's compound a mile up Massachusetts avenue, and at businesses in the area.&nbsp;</p><p>Finally, in September 2017, the federal government began renting a $3,000-a-month studio apartment across the street from the Trump-Kushner residence for the agents' bathroom needs. The government has so far spent about $100,000 on rent for the basement apartment and is expected to spend another $44,000 as the apartment has been leased until September 2021.</p><p>White House spokesman Judd Deere denied that Trump and Kushner had prohibited their Secret Service detail from using the bathrooms in their house in a statement to The Post.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/melania-trump-learned-she-wouldnt-attend-inauguration-from-trumps-tweet-2021-1" >Melania Trump didn't know whether she'd be attending Biden's inauguration until the president tweeted that he'd skip it</a></strong></p><p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-100k-bathroom-rental-for-secret-service-2021-1#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/literacy-test-louisiana-disenfranchise-black-vote-2016-6">We took a 1964 Louisiana literacy test and failed spectacularly</a></p>
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