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A Secret Service agent stands watch as President Barack Obama arrives aboard the Marine One helicopter at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport in New York on Sept. 13, 2016.Carlos Barria/Reuters Protecting the president isn't easy or cheap, and according to estimates  from The Washington Post , President Donald Trump and his family are on track to supersede what it cost to protect former President Barack Obama and his family by hundreds of millions of dollars, the newspaper reported on Thursday night. Judicial Watch, a conservative group that tracked the cost of travel expenses for Obama, estimated that $97 million was spent during his eight years in office. However, based on the first four weeks of Trump's presidency, which included three trips to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, Trump is well on his way to jump past that figure. The Post rounded up a handful of estimates of the costs of protecting the Trump family incurred by the US departments of Defense and Hom