Despite multiple reports claiming that disgraced former first son Hunter Biden is completely broke, new records show that Hunter Biden was given nearly $10 million in lavish services courtesy of American taxpayers.
According to a shocking new report first published by government watchdog The Center Square, the Biden administration spent more than $10 million over three years on a security detail and related expenses for Hunter Biden.
The news comes after reports of denying similar protections to other high-profile political figures outlined in documents obtained by the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA).
According to the financial disclosures, the security detail for Hunter cost nearly $11 million, including on travel, real estate and expensive hotels, according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request CASA filed.
From Jan. 1, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2024, the now public documents indicate that the Biden administration spent nearly $9.3 million on hotels, $1.1 million on air and rail travel, and nearly $600,000 on car transportation and rentals for Hunter Biden’s Secret Service detail.
The documents also revealed that nearly all of Hunter’s taxpayer-funded costs – 95% – were incurred in California, where he often resided.
But numerous expenses also were incurred on expensive trips to the Virgin Islands, Nantucket, and Santa Ynez, California.
According to the documents, taxpayer-funded Secret Service expenses for Hunter Biden included multiple trips to Nantucket, an exclusive island off of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
This included several hundred thousand dollars spent for a 2022 Thanksgiving trip to Nantucket, including $10,000 on golf cart rentals, $120,000 on lodging with $740 nightly hotel rates; $120,000 on travel cards, among other expenses.
The are also reports that the USSS also allegedly rented out a $30K a month house in Malibu to keep an eye on Hunter Biden.
“If the Biden Secret Service was truly low on funding and staffing as they claimed in July 2024, the American people deserve answers as to why their priorities were so grossly misaligned,” CASA Director James Fitzpatrick said in a statement.
The shocking dollar amounts associated with Hunter’s protection come after President Donald Trump ended Hunter’s Secret Service protection in March, along with that of his half-sister Ashley’s.
Trump just revoked Hunter Biden’s Secret Service protection🔥
He may have gotten a Pardon from daddy, but he won’t be living off taxpayer dollars anymore
This is the price you pay for taking bribes for selling out our country pic.twitter.com/B2shNP20TI
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) March 17, 2025
Despite the lavish expenses at the expense of the taxpayer dime, Hunter Biden continues to be embroiled in expensive, legal battles.
As previously reported by The Horn News, Melania Trump has threatened to sue Hunter Biden for $1 billion over claims he made about first lady regarding the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
An attorney for Melania Trump is demanding that Hunter Biden retract and apologize for his recent claim that Jeffrey Epstein first introduced her to President Trump, threatening to file legal action for over $1 billion in damages if he does not comply. https://t.co/Q9FZ2DXO9u
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 14, 2025
Attorneys for Melania Trump sent a letter demanding Biden retract statements he made about the first lady regarding Epstein in an interview on Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan and published on YouTube earlier this month. The letter accused Biden of causing “overwhelming financial and reputational harm” to the first lady.
“This correspondence serves as a demand … that you immediately retract the false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements made about Mrs. Trump,” the letter says. The interview “has since been re-published by various media outlets, journalists, and political commentators with millions of social media followers that have disseminated the false and defamatory statements therein to tens of millions of people worldwide. Consequently, you have caused Mrs. Trump to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm.”
According to Melania Trump’s legal team, if demands are not met, “Mrs. Trump will be left with no alternative but to enforce her legal and equitable rights, all of which are expressly reserved and are not waived, including by filing legal action for over $1 Billion Dollars in damages. You are on notice,” the letter says.
Biden appeared on the YouTube news show Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan twice in videos published on July 21 and August 5, where he went on a series of profanity-laden rants that went viral, racking up over 3.6 million views.