You will never hear me say that “$14 million is a nothingburger in light of our budget”, but, $10 million is actually a pretty good number for all that they did to the Reflecting Pool. But, Democracy Dies In Darkness, which never investigates where other spending goes, is Upset
From the link
Trump has put the cost of the work on the pool at $1.5 million to $2 million, but records show that at least $14.8 million worth of contracts have been awarded for the project. The president announced the work in April during an unrelated Oval Office appearance, saying he was inspired by complaints from a friend visiting from Germany who called the pool dark and disgusting.
The link itself is from a June 5th story, so, the WP is re-tweeting again and again because they are unhinged. A backyard pool can run between $50K-$100k, excluding decking and stuff. This is a wee bit bigger (though it’s only 30 inches deep) at almost a half mile long, up to 175 feet wide, and has 6.75 million gallons of water. Then having to try and keep it clean. Seriously, the Biden admin was figuring around $300 million (probably $60 million for actual work, the rest in waste and graft). Has the WP complained about the billions wasted from Biden’s EV charging station adventure? How much was graft, fraud, and waste in the whole Green New Deal, er, Inflation Reduction Act? Hell F*ck, how about the entire budget?
Critics have said Trump, a Republican, is spending too much time and attention on his pet projects and not enough on issues that voters care about, like the cost of living, in the run-up to the November elections. Others have said he wants the reflecting pool to look more like a swimming pool.
“Critics” who have TDS, upset that Trump is having people clean up our nation’s capitol. Seriously, you think he spends more time doing this? He has people who do this, and Los Federales have employees who are directed to do this.
Decline is a choice. We have a massive budget and all these employees and we cannot keep things clean and running in the nation’s seat of power? And they overspend when they do stuff. How much more could we do with the money?
The Lincoln Memorial and the whole area around it, along with the walking paths for the Reflecting Pool, were powerwashed. And, yes, this gets done periodically, but, lots of stuff doesn’t get fixed for a long time. Many were in decline for decades. They got the WWII monument all nice and clean and working. But, Dems apparently hate this because Orange Man Bad. And their groups didn’t get graft money.
They whine about 15 million that actually went into America’s economy but have no problems with Somalis stealing billions and sending most of that back to Africa.