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President Donald Trump is spending far more on his various pet projects around Washington DC than you might think.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt least $60 million from a National Park Service (NPS) entrance fee fund is going toward Washington, D.C.-based projects as President Trump seeks to \u2018beautify\u2019 the city ahead of the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary, contracts reveal,\u201d reported The Hill\u2019s Rachel Frazin on Wednesday. \u201cThis program receives funding from visitor entrance fees. At least 80 percent of entrance fees go to the park where they are collected, while the other 20 percent can be used at other Park Service locations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Identifying the story as originating from The New York Times, Frazin pointed out that the $60 million in contracts is coming from the NPS recreation program with an additional $13 million going toward Trump\u2019s renovations on the National Mall Reflecting Pool. That last allocation, however, is not listed in the federal database of NPS projects, raising questions about how it is being funded. All that is known for sure is that $7 million is coming from park fees.<\/p>\n

\u201cD.C. is looking beautiful,\u201d Trump recently said about his construction projects. \u201cThe fountains are almost all open.\u201d<\/p>\n

Experts disagree with Trump\u2019s evaluation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that there are there are walls crumbling in parks out there, so it\u2019s not that fountains aren\u2019t deserving, but when it\u2019s a true triage situation, because Congress has not funded our parks, it\u2019s harder to argue that we should be turning fountains on when there are really severe maintenance needs all across the park system,\u201d Center for Western Priorities Executive Director Aaron Weiss told The Hill. He also described Trump\u2019s initiatives as \u201cvanity projects and the stuff that he can see from his golden throne off the Lincoln Bedroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovations have raised particular ire because of the seeming incompetence involved in their execution. Although the president initially claimed that he had previously worked with the company he hired, he later denied all such associations.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump previously said he had personally chosen the contractor to fix the Reflecting Pool, because of the good work they did on his golf club’s swimming pools,\u201d The New York Times\u2019 David A. Farenthold posted on X. \u201cNow, Trump says does not know them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farenthold and his colleague Maxine Joselow reported earlier in May that documents also seem to contradict Trump\u2019s rosy projections about when the project would be completed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe documents say both issues were being addressed, but they raise the possibility that the work may not be finished by the government\u2019s deadline of May 22,\u201d Farenthold and Joselow wrote. \u201cThat would be an ironic turn of events, given that federal bidding laws were skirted because the government had argued there was an urgent need \u2014 to have it ready for the country\u2019s 250th anniversary celebrations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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