No-bid contract drew inflated profit for Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool repairs
The National Park Service says a first-time contractor won a $13.1 million no-bid contract to renovate the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The agency's analysis concludes the firm is earning excess profit on the reflecting pool repairs despite the award being made without competitive bidding. That matters because it shifts taxpayer money to an unproven vendor and highlights oversight gaps for high-profile federal contracts on historic sites.
NYT Exclusive: The contractor given a no-bid contract to repair the Reflecting Pool is being paid an inflated and excessive profit margin. The typical margin of federal construction contracts is 6-12%. But the firm fixing the pool submitted a bid that charged 20%.
Irritatedbirdwithbigeyes35OK, has anybody checked to see if the guy who’s doing the reflecting pool was the same guy who did the Mar-a-Lago pool when it flooded where all of the confidential records were? Or whatever?
SavRTruthTiger 💙🌊🌊🌊💙23Wanna bet at least 8% goes back to the Tangerine Man?
mbdp.bsky.social18A 20% profit margin in construction is very unusual. Most public contract like to see something much smaller & if you get 10%, you are doing well. This contract must likely violates any FAR regulation
Joshua Sharp17How much of that is kickback to one of Trump's entities?
dgglynn16Not a repair, NYT. Redecorating is not repairing.
flapperdreams11That's probably because Trump is getting half of that as his kickback. That's how he does business, using our money or someone else's...
Marie G 💜OT⁷815-16% kickback, maybe? Holy frau, waste, abuse.
Lpeterp8Immoral, illegal and wrong. This is what the GOP is doing to the country. It must stop.
cj49877🇺🇲🇮🇹🇦🇲😺🫘8How much is it going to cost to undo all of these improvements.
Dr Robin7The art of the kickback.
@KeepItBlueDems.bsky.social6I am sure Trump is pocketing most of this or all & the Contractor will never get paid.
Charles Colee5Yeah - but be fair, folks. That 20% profit margin likely includes a 10% kickback to the Trump Crime Cartel.
DianaResists5Lawrence O’Donnell reports Trump is taking money from our national parks to pay for his reflecting pool!
P Collirigger4I'm sure there's a side deal involving maintenance and repair at one of the Trump properties.
Julia Field 🌻3Trump is very free with our taxpayer money. And I’m betting he takes a percentage.
bluewo.bsky.social3What’s the kickback to the orange asshole?!?
glenzlenz.bsky.social2They had to increase profit margin to cover trump's kick back. He's probably getting a kick back on all the unnecessary construction .
desolationrow2Well wait a minute. How much did they have to give donnie. That cuts into the profit margin.
xmrr.bsky.social2Probably after kickbacks the *contractor’s* profit margin reverts back to normal (or even below normal)
tree-bee2sooo… cost of ‘repairs’ original ‘bid’ at <$2M. actual >$13M so price jacked up 5X. then the mango mofo takes a cool mill for itself. nice work if you can get it. i mean steal it. “contractor given a no-bid contract to repair the Reflecting Pool is being paid an inflated and excessive profit”
Wedge Antilles 🇨🇴🇺🇸2Self-dealing and non-stop corruption. Republicans are criminals.
serena-spencer-esq.bsky.social2I mean, why aren't journalists going after the contractors who participate in Trump & GOP ripping U.S. off? 😏Loyalty to our country used to matter. "Patriots."👀 We need to investigate every contractor Trump hires for kickbacks, fraud & surcharges. #RepublicanGrifters are NEVER held ACCOUNTABLE‼️
MarciSB2Two logicist problems. A dark body of water creates a much better reflection. (Which is kinda the point) And a bright blue pool will be an expensive maintenance nightmare, look dirty, or likely Both.
Eggbutt Snafflebit2Well first of all, they didn't "repair" anything.
skinswoman.bsky.social2Gotta kick back to the boss
Trump is using millions of dollars of your National Park fees to put golf leaf on horses and paint the Reflecting Pool. www.notus.org/trump-white-...
Michael49Golf leaf is the best Freudian typo ever.
Well 🤬27Fortunately, when he's gone, it won't take much to remove all the gold and put it back to the way it was. But most everything else will take DECADES of not generations to undo the enormous damage he's done.
kath-55-1.bsky.social25The tackiness is never ending🤮
Rob Hageman23Narcissus, according to the myth, fell in love with his own pool reflection.
Radiogaga🌱7520I am so f*cking sick of this asshole throwing money away on frivolous shit. We need to keep a tally and bill the Trump organization when/if he leaves office.
Lee K17I want to know how much of a kick back Trump is getting for rewarding these No Bid Contracts!?? @wyden.senate.gov @whitehouse.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social Is anyone looking into this?
MadGreek 🧿17Fuck! Enough with the gold paint.
Snarky Panda11The party of fiscal responsibility
The Best Words9Of, FFS. Can Midas put down the spray can for five minutes?
degenerate eric (he/him)7I'm gonna lose my fucking mind before this term is over.
Phil Swallow6It doesn’t “beautify” anything. He “tackifies” stuff, making it look like a complete numbhead was let loose. Oh, wait a minute . . .
kijake64.bsky.social5To beautify? This man is one of the most gauche, lowbrow, tacky, no-taste, no-class people I've ever seen in my life. Beautify. What a joke.
One Who Knows5Posts like this make me think of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten (father of Tut) he made sweeping changes, especially to Egypt’s religion, which was also a huge part of their culture. When he died, they actually tried to erase him from the history and they did a pretty good job.
TelecomOne4While the cost of gas, groceries, and healthcare rises to unaffordable levels.
Jeff4Where's JD to stop all this waste, fraud, and abuse.
Susan3Can't SOMEONE make him stop this crap???
Bidu Tashjian3and letting our National Parks rot!!!
Baja Arizona. We fight on.3You can put all the gold you want on tRump and the rest of his sycophants, they're still going to be the southern end of a northbound horse.
mungonna8.bsky.social3...Im sorry, Im still not over the complete destruction of the East Wing..
SpikeyFloof🦋🥃🐸3These are so going to be vandalized for the gold
flyovercountry76.bsky.social3BRONZE statues are NOT SUPPOSED to be golden. The are supposed to look like AGED BRONZE.
Dolorosa Santos3Congress best check on the national gold reserves at Fort Knox. Trump's probably already swiped it.
Kate C.2The statues are bronze like the statues from Ancient Greece and Rome. Why would you put gold paint on them? It’s like his Corinthian columns, they don’t go with Federal style buildings. But he has no knowledge of history or decor.
603Lola 🐶🗳️💙🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👠🙋🏻👩🏻⚖️2I could have gone down there with some gold Rustoleum for half the price.
Yo Adrienne 💙2I don’t mind a president who wants to spruce things up a bit but it’s usually the First Lady that does that and neither of the senior Trumps residing in the WH have class.
Kolshack2This is so much better than hot school lunches for the kids. Do you know how many times I burned the top of my mouth on hot pizza...
