{"id":366,"date":"2026-05-09T20:52:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2026-05-09T20:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T20:52:19","slug":"no-bid-contract-to-turn-dcs-reflecting-pool-blue-goes-to-firm-with-ties-to-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"No-bid contract to turn DC\u2019s reflecting pool blue goes to firm with ties to Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A company Trump has used for work at his Virginia golf course was awarded $6.9m to paint the iconic attraction<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s latest beautification plan for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/washington-dc\">Washington DC<\/a> \u2013 the restoration of the 2,000ft-long reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial \u2013 has met been with claims that a $6.9m contract to carry out the project was hastily handed out to a company that renovated a swimming pool at the president\u2019s Virginia golf course.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/08\/us\/politics\/reflecting-pool-trump-contract.html\">The New York Times reported<\/a> that the no-bid contract for the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool was given to <a href=\"https:\/\/vaspray.com\/aic\/sites\/index\/#page-top\">Atlantic Industrial Coatings<\/a>, based in New Canton, Virginia, on 3 April \u2013 despite company records\u2019 showing it has not previously been awarded a federal contract.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/09\/trump-no-bid-contract-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company Trump has used for work at his Virginia golf course was awarded $6.9m to paint the iconic attraction Donald Trump\u2019s latest beautification plan for Washington DC \u2013 the restoration of the 2,000ft-long reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial \u2013 has met been with claims that a $6.9m contract to carry out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}