{"id":2849,"date":"2026-07-05T20:40:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2849"},"modified":"2026-07-05T20:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T20:40:19","slug":"the-trump-administration-will-use-the-same-company-that-tried-to-renovate-the-reflecting-pool-to-repair-it-because-they-did-a-fantastic-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2849","title":{"rendered":"The Trump administration will use the same company that tried to renovate the Reflecting Pool to repair it \u2014 \u2018because they did a fantastic job\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Like President\u00a0Donald Trump, Burgum said he was 100% sure that\u00a0vandals caused the damage\u00a0to the century-old Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. Trump has charged that a 350-foot gash was cut into the pool\u2019s liner in the midst of recent renovations, while Burgum described it as multiple cuts adding up to that figure. He also said the pool would have to be at least partially drained in the coming week to finish the repairs.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2847\">The stock market is about to suffer a \u2018snapback\u2019 and will lose much of this year\u2019s gains as \u2018speculation is hitting extreme levels,\u2019 BofA warns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The repairs will not be opened up to new contractors, he said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll use the same company, because they did a fantastic job,\u201d Burgum told CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201d \u201dThankfully, the vandalism was small. It was bad. I mean, it could cost tens of thousands of dollars to repair, so then it could fall into a felony \u2026 just like damaging any other government property could. But the job that was done to fix the Reflecting Pool was done extremely well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump this spring pledged to beautify the Reflecting Pool before the nation\u2019s 250th birthday celebrations on July Fourth. Water was drained and the Republican president directed that the bottom be painted a color he called \u201cAmerican flag blue.\u201d But after the site was restored, the water was\u00a0plagued by an algae bloom\u00a0for more than a week, and pieces of the new coating have appeared to be peeling off the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>The pool was closed for the Independence Day celebration, but Burgum said that was due to a safety issue related to the fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>The evolving debate over the Reflecting Pool has inflamed the broader fight over Trump\u2019s aggressive push to overhaul Washington landmarks, including\u00a0the White House, nearly two years into his final term in office.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Authorities have arrested more than a half dozen people related in relation to Reflecting Pool damage, including\u00a0former Olympian David Hearn, who was indicted last week on a felony of property destruction.<\/p>\n<p>The top federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, said Hearn ripped up recently installed sealant on the pool in \u201ca deliberate act\u201d that caused more than $1,000 in damage. She accused him of \u201cforcefully and violently\u201d pulling up the bottom liner \u201cwith both hands\u201d and acting belligerently toward an employee who told him to stop.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hearn\u2019s lawyers, Democracy Defenders Fund co-founder Norm Eisen and Mary Dohrmann, said the charges were \u201coutrageous and should be alarming to every American.\u201d Eisen and Dohrmann construed the case as representative of \u201cthe misuse of government power against an ordinary citizen based on a concocted narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2845\">As higher airfares and gas prices make vacations \u2018crazy expensive,\u2019 small business owners say Americans are staying closer to home this summer<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Burgum was asked and did not answer directly whether there was photographic evidence of vandals cutting the pool\u2019s liner. He was also asked whether Hearn should face a 10-year prison sentence, which is the maximum legal penalty for his charge.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cJust because you were a former something doesn\u2019t exclude you from the law today,\u201d Burgum told CNN. \u201cThe courts will decide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, questions loom over the no-bid contracts for the project that were awarded to vendors with prior ties to Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio-based\u00a0, also known as Greenwater Services, was given a $1.7 million contract to install a water-purification system in the Reflecting Pool, while Virginia-based\u00a0\u00a0was awarded $14.7 million to repaint and waterproof the pool\u2019s concrete floor.<\/p>\n<p>About 10 Democratic senators and House members are investigating the pool project.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cTaxpayers deserve a full explanation of how these failures occurred and who will be held accountable for correcting them,\u2033 said a letter signed last month by six senators.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2843\">Trump moves the goalposts for NATO after demanding members spend more. \u2018We don\u2019t need their money \u2014 we don\u2019t need anything. I just want loyalty\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Burgum also appeared on ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interior Secretary\u00a0Doug Burgum\u00a0said Sunday that the federal government will not seek new bids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-federal-government"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Trump administration will use the same company that tried to renovate the Reflecting Pool to repair it \u2014 \u2018because they did a fantastic job\u2019 - Cross Country Moving Team<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=2849\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Trump administration will use the same company that tried to renovate the Reflecting Pool to repair it \u2014 \u2018because they did a fantastic job\u2019 - 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