Loudoun Co. Sheriff's Office provides help to Secret Service during Trump's golf visits.
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Loudoun Co. Sheriffs Office provides help to Secret Service during Trumps golf visits. Who should pay for that?
Neal Augenstein | naugenstein@wtop.com
May 12, 2025, 2:44 PM
Loudoun Countys Board of Supervisors has asked the sheriffs office to gather information detailing how much is spent when deputies provide assistance to the U.S. Secret Service, during President Donald Trumps visits to his Loudoun County golf club.
During the supervisors May 6 meeting, Algonkian Supervisor Juli Briskman asked whether the sheriffs office is being reimbursed for services provided during the presidents visits to Trump International Golf Course in Lowes Island, in the Sterling area of the Virginia county.
The short answer is no, we are not being reimbursed for that, said Lt. Col. Christopher Sawyer. We have asked, in writing, and we will continue to ask, because the resources are significant.
Local jurisdictions, including D.C., have long sought reimbursement from the federal government for police and fire department services that are provided when the president is present. Congress is considering a bill to allow the Secret Service to reimburse local first responder agencies.
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Juli Briskman? Where have I heard that name before?
Cyclist who flipped off Trump motorcade wins local office in Virginia
By Paul LeBlanc, CNN
Updated 4:24 PM EST, Wed November 6, 2019
Washington (CNN) The cyclist who flipped off President Donald Trumps motorcade in 2017, and lost her job because of it, has won her bid for local office in Virginia.
CNN projected that Juli Briskman on Tuesday night won her race to become supervisor for the Algonkian District in Loudoun County, Virginia. The win comes just over two years after a photo of Briskman flipping off the Presidents motorcade as it made its way back to the White House from Trumps golf course in Sterling, Virginia, went viral in October 2017. Her lawyer said she was forced to resign from her job as a marketing executive at Akima LLC over the photo.
Briskman was able to leverage her viral rebuke of Trump into Tuesdays win with a campaign that made the image central to her political message.
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