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I just read this: Yesterday, David A. Fahrenthold, Luke Broadwater, and Andrea Fuller of the New York Times reported that the Trump administration has secretly awarded the company it chose to build the ballroom a no-bid $17.4 million contract to repair two ornamental fountains in Lafayette Park near the White House. In 2022 the Biden administration estimated the cost of the work to be $3.3 million. The journalists explain that the Trump administration dramatically increased the estimated cost by adding an additional 27% for inflation and then adding another inflation estimate of 24%, then increased its estimate by another 50% because it wanted to get the fountains fixed quickly, then simply gave the contract to Maryland-based Clark Construction. SERIOUSLY?!?!? WTF!!!!! This administration is the WORST, most UNETHICAL, TRANSACTIONAL administration in American History, with Trump & CO. RAKING in the $$$. IF ONLY Congress would INSIST on ETHICS and TRANSPARENCY and REPERCUSSIONS from illegal and questionable behavior, all Americans would sleep better at night.