The firm given a no-bid contract to fix the Reflecting Pool charged a 20% profit margin.
The government agreed to pay $13.1 million for the project—7x Trump's estimate—and is using $7 million worth of national park entrance fees to help foot the bill.
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Trump's IRS lawsuit is the first time a president sued and settled a case with their own admin. That's blatant self-dealing.
But to making matters more bizarre, the DOJ unit that should have handled the case claims to have no record of it.
https://t.co/YDBSnsQz4g
President Trump's $1.776 billion settlement with the IRS is one of the single most corrupt acts in American history.
They moved fast to avoid the scrutiny of the judicial process, and very likely violated the Constitution. This is an outrage.
The OCC is expected to approve the Trump family's application for a national bank trust charter, which would allow their crypto firm to operate like a bank.
That could help the Trump family make even more money. It's an ethical outrage.
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This is a jaw-dropping, horrific surrender document complete with hundreds of billions in reparations. It is the predictable result of incompetent negotiation and the foolhardy strategic catastrophe of starting and pursuing this disastrous war. The U.S. will not soon recover from this, the biggest national security blunder in decades.
Scientists at Trump’s EPA say they are being told to make chemical risks “disappear on paper.”
When a safety test shows danger, supervisors reportedly ask them to keep shrinking the scenario until the poison looks safe. Senior scientists reassigned to paperwork. Former chemical industry lobbyists running the offices meant to regulate the chemical industry.
But the cancer does not disappear.
The birth defects do not disappear.
The kids drinking the water and getting sick do not disappear.
The EPA exists to protect people, not the profit margins of the people poisoning them.
The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water.
Equipment taxpayers already bought and paid for, removed right as record temperatures and a possible collapse of Atlantic currents have scientists alarmed. There is no savings analysis. The gear is already paid for. And the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea, destroying the only tools that could measure the damage.
They are smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
My friend Jamie Raskin is one of the most careful and principled people in Congress. So when he says the director of the FBI may be running a taxpayer funded slush fund, I pay attention.
Here is what he found.
Kash Patel directed more than $1 million in bonus payments to a small circle of agents in his inner circle and on his security detail.
Some were getting nearly $8,000 every two weeks on top of salaries that were already maxed out at the federal ceiling. A number of them collected close to $40,000 over consecutive pay periods.
The payments came so fast that the FBI’s bonus reserve accounts ran dry and some checks bounced.
So who got the money?
Agents on Patel’s so-called "director’s advisory team."
That is the unit created in 2025 and described internally as a payback squad, built to dig up dirt on the law enforcement officials who investigated Trump and his allies.
Raskin has given Patel until June 29 to account for every payment, every recipient, and any internal review of whether this was even legal.
Patel should answer for all of it.
https://t.co/HZPeRJ2Kqg
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Women truly endure so many hardships in life. She has been through a lot, and mothers will always do everything they can to protect their children, no matter what. ✨️💖