Administration wants West Wing remodel money in virus bill

[babylonsister]

NOW they want to remodel? Just Say No! They have horrible taste to boot.


Administration wants West Wing remodel money in virus bill
By ZEKE MILLER
July 29, 2020


WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration wants $377 million in the next coronavirus relief bill for a long-delayed modernization of the West Wing, but the timetable for construction is yet to be determined.

The sum, included in the draft aid legislation from Senate Republicans, would also cover a new security screening facility for the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex.

While lawmakers, including Republicans, have balked at the administration’s request for more than $1 billion in the bill for a new FBI headquarters in Washington, the West Wing plan has drawn relatively little scrutiny. The administration says the White House work would “increase the White House campus’s ability to detect, mitigate and alleviate external security and pandemic threats.”

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[SheltieLover]

1. Putin doesn't want to pay

For his own surveillance devices? 🤬

[woodsprite]

2. Bet that "security" system would have a back door directly to the Kremlin. nt

[RazzleCat]

3. two things

included is “increase the White House campus’s ability to detect, mitigate and alleviate external security and pandemic threats.” but remember the pandemic is a hoax, and will just "go away".

Most important, you know who knows how to grift in construction. Kick backs, no bid contracts, and many people he may owe, or want to reward. So no. Or how about a yes, but with no bids or information on what bids will be let (such as equipment, painting, drywall, concrete as in even what the project would involve) until February 2021? So a total lockout of financial profits for this Presidential term, including there appointees.

[stopbush]

4. Such an asshole. The Rs are against this, so the Ds don't need to spend

any time or energy fighting it. In the end, tRump’s problem is Yertle.