A cool $74,000 per week. Or about $1 million over the next four months.

That’s how much Newt Gingrich needs to raise if he wants to keep the White House tours open.

Gingrich said on Fox News last night that “if the White House would tell us what much it takes, we will raise the money to enable the White House tours to continue, period.”

How that money works out… according to Politico:

During tours, 37 Secret Service officers typically are stationed along the route, each getting paid $50 an hour for 40 hours each week, agency spokesman Edwin Donovan told POLITICO. That works out to $74,000 a week.

The White House announced Tuesday that just ahead of tourist season there will be no more tours given at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., thanks to sequestration.

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