The businesses at the small Florida airport will be closed each time as the President Donald Trump visits his Mar-a-Lago resort.

The U.S. Reps. Lois Frankel and Ted Deutch, both the Florida Democrats, said on Monday that the Secret Service officials told to Lantana Airport tenants during a closed-door meeting that they cannot allow aircraft to take off from the facility.

The airport is about 6 miles southwest of the Mar-a-Lago and the Secret Service said that the small, propeller-driven planes and also the helicopters based there could be a threat to the president's security even if the aircraft and helicopters are directed away from the resort.

The flight schools, a banner operation and other businesses at the Lantana said that they are losing thousands of dollars every time during the president visits. Trump has visited the Mar-a-Lago four of the seven weekends he has been president and there have been more than 30 violations of its airspace even with the Lantana Airport closed.

Frankel said that it is unlikely the airport's 28 businesses could get direct reimbursement from the federal government. She also suggested that they negotiate rent reductions with the Palm Beach County, which owns the airport, and also that the county then seek reimbursement. The county is already seeking $1.7 million to pay for the extra security costs incurred by Trump's visits, and that tab is growing.

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Jonathan Miller, the contractor who runs the airport for the county, said that some of his tenants are trying to move more of their business to the weekdays to avoid Trump's visits, but that only goes so far. Many flight students need to take their lessons on the weekends, and that is when the banner company's customers want to advertise. A helicopter business already moved because of the Trump visits, costing Miller $440,000 in the annual rent and fuel sales.

Mrudula Duddempudi.