- Fri Mar 08, 2013 11:15 pm
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AP-14-year-old Malia Obama, was spotted dining with a group of friends at a New York restaurant shortly after President Obama signed off on the sequester. There were several Secret Service agents in the restaurant, according to reports that said they stayed behind the group Malia was partying with. How much overtime these types of assignments cost the Secret Service is an area of concern. The Secret Service admitted that overtime costs on these type of details factored into the decision to shut down the White House tours.
Press Secretary Jay Carney a day earlier said "the President and the first lady have throughout the time that they've been here made extraordinary efforts to make this the people's house, and it is extremely unfortunate that we have a situation like the sequester that compels the kinds of tradeoffs and decisions that this represents."
