The mayor also underscored his dissatisfaction with the federal government's insistence that the city use $11 million of its annual federal security grant to help cover inauguration costs.
That number has been rising over the last decades, with Mr. Clinton topping out at 14 in 1997; George W. Bush scaled back to nine in 2005, but his was still the most expensive inauguration, costing $42.3 million in private money.
From the November election and Inauguration Day, it cost New York City $24 million, or $308,000 per day, to provide security at Trump Tower. .
Obama's 2009 inauguration was estimated to cost $170 million, or $190 million today after factoring in inflation.
Intrater personally helped cover the cost of the inauguration, giving $250,000 to the inauguration fund, according to financial disclosures.
She had been planning the White House meals since well before the Inauguration, commissioning nutritious, low-cost menus from the home-economics faculty at Cornell, in the hope of making the White House a demonstration project for conscientious cookery during the Depression.
So can the cost: Attending inaugurations is expensive, and Hillary Clinton, not Trump, carried the states closest to D.C.
Local officials have estimated that the overall cost of the inauguration to the city will exceed $17 million, but the federal government has given it only $6 million for the event.
I see no significant difference between paid advertising in the media extolling the virtues of an academic medical center, and the cost of an inauguration that puts UMDNJ's academic medical centers before the public eye.
