Trump’s administration won’t seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
Burgum said the administration will keep the same contractor as questions grow over vandalism claims, no-bid work and more than $1 million in damage.
- Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced Sunday that the Trump administration will not seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, retaining existing contractors despite mounting controversy over the troubled project.
- President Donald Trump pledged to beautify the site for the nation's 250th birthday, but the renovation faced immediate setbacks after algae blooms and the 'American flag blue' liner began peeling shortly after reopening.
- Trump cited a 350-foot gash in the liner, though Burgum described it as multiple cuts. Contracts awarded $14.7 million to Virginia-based Atlantic Industrial Coatings and $1.7 million to Ohio-based Green Water Solutions.
- Authorities indicted former Olympian David Hearn last week for property destruction, though lawyers Norm Eisen and Mary Dohrmann called the charges 'outrageous and should be alarming to every American.'
- About 10 Democratic senators and House members are investigating the project, while Burgum emphasized that 'courts will decide' the penalty for Hearn, who faces 10 years in prison if convicted.
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U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's attempts to blame a sea of reflecting pool troubles on D.C. vandals instead of D.C. incompetence left one Republican sputtering. Michael Steele, the former chair of the Republican National Committee, took to X Sunday afternoon to share his views on a tense CNN i...
The Trump administration will not launch a new call for tenders for the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial reflective basin, announced Sunday the US Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, as he was confronted with new questions about this controversial project and the taxpayers' money dedicated to it.
Trump Administration To Use Same Contractor For Reflecting Pool Repairs, Burgum Says - Real News Now
The Trump administration plans to use the same company that handled the original renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to repair damage to the pool’s liner, according to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. Burgum defended the contractor’s work and said the company had done a “fantastic job” on the project overall. The Reflecting Pool underwent a roughly $16 million renovation ahead of America’s 250th birthday celebrations, including rep…
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That's according to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who faced new questions on Sunday about the troubled project and the taxpayer money involved.
Trump admin will use same company to repair Reflecting Pool’s damaged liner, Burgum says: ‘Did a fantastic job’
The same company that originally put the "American flag blue" sealant down on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool will do the repair work, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum revealed.
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