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But a detailed project summary prepared for the White House by the contractor more than 3 weeks before Trump’s comments estimated the total construction cost at $600 million—with more than half coming from #taxpayers, according to a copy of the contractor estimate obtained by WaPo.
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@Nonilex I'm shocked! Shocked, I say!
Wait. No. I meant the other one.
Who could possibly be surprised by this?
Yea. That one.
@Nonilex Can the next president rebuild as was, and get insurance to pay for it because the demolition was criminal damage?
Trump is an incontinent money printing machine. the federal reserve doesn’t have any good way of managing the money supply because of it
Our taxes pay for nothing. Checks written to the treasury is money erased from the economy.
Those assholes are printing money straight into their pockets while everyone else gets austerity and are obligated to send their pennies to an incinerator to close the deficit. We don’t get much of that money being printed. See how it works?
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The US government should sue for damages as soon as he is out of office....before dying of Putinitis
@Nonilex Trump vandalized public property. He should be forced to rebuild the old East Wing exactly as it was at his own expense.
Five months after the demolition of the White House’s #EastWing, #Trump claimed that the project to construct a massive #ballroom & a bunker in its place would cost up to $400 million & that private donors would pay for all of it.
“This is taxpayer-free. We have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on March 31, describing the project as including bomb shelters & major medical facilities.
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But a detailed project summary prepared for the White House by the contractor more than 3 weeks before Trump’s comments estimated the total construction cost at $600 million—with more than half coming from #taxpayers, according to a copy of the contractor estimate obtained by WaPo.
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By the time #Trump made his comments in March, the federal government had already approved more than a dozen payments to the contractor overseeing the work, Clark Construction, totaling tens of millions of dollars in #PublicFunds, acc/to a log of the contractor’s invoices….
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Since first announcing the East Wing project last July, #Trump has repeatedly said that the price tag would not exceed $400 million & that private donations routed through a nonprofit would cover its entire cost. At other times, he has said that the #SecretService & the #military would contribute #security enhancements, without elaborating on the price of those upgrades.
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Multiple project summaries provided to the White House by Clark Construction show that internal cost estimates have been significantly higher than admin officials have acknowledged in public comments or court filings. They also show that the work was projected to rely heavily on taxpayer dollars from the moment it was announced.
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The Post obtained 6 cost estimates for the entire #EastWing project, dated from July 2025 to March of this year, that show an increasing price tag as well as the expected sources of funding. Those records, as well as invoices & correspondence, provide the clearest accounting yet of #Trump’s most ambitious construction project in the nation’s capital. The project is deeply unpopular with most Americans, & even some Republican lawmakers have balked at funding it.
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