{"id":49439,"date":"2026-05-15T04:25:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49439"},"modified":"2026-05-15T04:25:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T04:25:01","slug":"why-trumps-reflecting-pool-repairs-are-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49439","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump\u2019s Reflecting Pool Repairs Are in Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<br \/><span class=\"css-hple31\">Federal records show that the no-bid contract to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and paint it blue now costs $13.1 million. That\u2019s about seven times the amount President Trump initially said it would cost.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By David A. Fahrenthold, Nikolay Nikolov, Gilad Thaler, Rafaela Balster, L\u00e9o Hamelin, Stephanie Swart and Whitney Shefte<\/p>\n<p>May 14, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal records show that the no-bid contract to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and paint it blue now costs $13.1 million. That\u2019s about seven times the amount President Trump initially said it would cost. By David A. Fahrenthold, Nikolay Nikolov, Gilad Thaler, Rafaela Balster, L\u00e9o Hamelin, Stephanie Swart and Whitney Shefte May 14, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[9044,13898,24521,1390,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-49439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-pool","9":"tag-reflecting","10":"tag-repairs","11":"tag-trouble","12":"tag-trumps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}