White House planned to start Triumphal Arch work under unrelated contract

[demmiblue]

Source: WaPo

The Trump administration planned to start work at the site of the president’s proposed Triumphal Arch by piggybacking on an existing, unrelated contract for engineering services at the White House grounds more than a mile away, emails obtained by The Washington Post show.

The move would allow the administration to bypass a potentially lengthy public bidding process, and experts said it was unusual because the arch site is on National Park Service land across the Potomac River and is not part of the White House complex.

Park Service acting director Jessica Bowron wrote to White House officials last month asking whether the agency could extend a contract between the White House and engineering firm AECOM Services for an environmental assessment for the proposed 250-foot arch.

In her email, Bowron acknowledged that the proposed arch isn’t adjacent to the White House like Lafayette Square, another site AECOM has worked on under the same agreement, but she wrote that using the existing contract would allow work to “align with the Administration’s timeline.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/05/14/trump-officials-okd-use-white-house-contract-begin-triumphal-arch-work

[Irish_Dem]

1. Humiliation of the USA continues.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. TRO Time!

Temporary Restraining Order

[tanyev]

3. Trump the builder, always looking for ways to avoid rules and regulations.

You couldn’t pay me to stay in any building or club that has his name on it.

[Seinan Sensei]

8. The Height of Buildings Act of 1910

restricts buildings to 90 feet for residential and 110 feet for business.
The proposed Epstein Triumphal Arch is 250 feet

Not that it matters.

[Ray Bruns]

4. I would like to point out that this would be extremely illegal.

But why bother?

[Botany]

5. "I would like to point out that this would be extremely illegal."

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So is the rape, murder, and sex trafficking of girls along with working for the
hostile foreign government of Russia but Trump doesn’t care and the GOP and
the media are giving him cover.

[republianmushroom]

11. Remember, "No one is above the law',. wink wink chuckle chuckle ha ha

[Torchlight]

6. He wants to dance a victory jig under the arch

at least once before his term putters out, like one or two who came before him.

[Hope22]

7. I'm concerned...

But remind myself what goes up …..

[GiqueCee]

9. Trump's infantile ego...

... can never be assuaged; it must be fed constantly, and if he can humiliate people in the process, so much the better. This depraved and perverted creature has NO redeeming qualities whatsoever, not one. Which says nothing good about the judgement or character of those delusional fantasists that persist in supporting him, even in the face of incontrovertible proof of his crimes.

Republicans own this evil bag of rat excrement for the rest of eternity, regardless of the lies they'll spew in their own defense when the hammer comes down on their sorry asses. Their obscene treachery will never be forgotten or forgiven. May it hound them all into early graves.

[Bayard]

10. Well said!

I could see this trump-strocity being stopped by a lawsuit that points out airplanes would hit it.