DebraSWelch

Kentucky Colonel, Author, multi generational Poet, Home Cook, Adoptive mother.

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BREAKING: ANOTHER SLAP IN THE FACE TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC! Trump is spending $5 million in taxpayer money to gold-plate horse statues in Washington while slashing social services for millions of Americans.

Donald Trump is cutting health care for the poor. He's gutting food assistance for hungry families. He's eliminating housing programs for struggling Americans.

And he's spending $5 million to put 23.75-karat gold leaf on four horse statues near the Lincoln Memorial.
Although many will wish this is satire, it’s not.

The National Park Service awarded a no-bid contract in mid-April to The Gilder's Studio, a Maryland gilding company, to "conserve and regild" four monumental bronze equestrian sculptures along the roads surrounding the Lincoln Memorial — in time for America's 250th birthday on July 4th. The contract documents confirm it was "NOT COMPETED" and awarded to "ONLY ONE SOURCE."

The statues currently look fine. They've been standing since their first restoration in the 1970s. Their gold-toned coating is admittedly a bit faded and patchy. Their stone bases have some cracks. But five million dollars worth of crisis? Not exactly.

This is the same administration that is using the July 4th deadline as justification for bypassing competitive bidding across Washington — handing no-bid contracts to handpicked vendors for everything from the gold horse statues to the leaking Reflecting Pool, where a company Trump selected because it cleaned his golf club pool charged a 20 percent profit margin and still can't stop the leaks.

The Interior Department has handed out nearly $100 million in contracts in a rushed beautification spree, most without full competition. A conservative watchdog already noted the obvious: "We've known that this is going to be America's 250th anniversary for 250 years. It's not like we didn't have time to plan."

Meanwhile, Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" slashes Medicaid by hundreds of billions of dollars, cuts SNAP food assistance, and eliminates programs that keep working families in their homes.

But the horse statues will be gleaming with nearly 24-karat gold by July 4th. Because that's what this administration's priorities look like in contract form.
Gold horses. No health care. No competitive bidding. No shame.

This is the Marie Antoinette administration — and they're not even hiding it anymore.

Please like and share this post to spread the news of what should be a HUGE scandal.

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@SarcasticParrot @DonaldJTrumpJr His wife had a child. He sired it. To have a child is to give birth to a child in general terms.

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Question: you order a product for $80. When delivered by the carrier, they request an additional $45 in tariffs. What would you do? Do you return it in protest, or pay the extra amount and just swallow the cost?

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@hwinkler4real Musketeer

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@RpsAgainstTrump Extreme bad taste. Not surprised.

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@author_VV Hi!

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@RCdeWinter For heaven sake! I needed this today.

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@RCdeWinter Love your sense of humor! Thank you, I need a dish today.

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@acnewsitics I mentioned to my son a couple of days ago that he seems to be withering.

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@Meeshlwills I hear you. I don’t have a daughter, but I know many youngwomen that age.

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@robreiner I probably watched this film 20 times. And will watch again when it’s available. Loved his documentary. Watched it twice. I’m a big fan.

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@AlbertBrooks @robreiner Watched it twice and loved it both times.

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@TheWeightSaint I’m so very sorry that you’ve lost your brother. You’re right and absolutely correct. He was a joy to watch. What you say is not just love for a brother. It’s the truth. God rest his soul.

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I can’t believe I misspelled one of my names. It’s Debra Shiveley Welch.

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Summer is here and reading season has begun. Search Debra Shively Welch on Amazon, and pick up free e-books! Can’t promise how long this free event will last

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@robreiner YES!!!!

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A man just collapsed at the ATL airport. Unresponsive. Not breathing. Turning blue. All in an instant, strangers raced to his aid—some administering CPR, others grabbing the defibrillators nearby—as several of us stood praying. After a scary minute or so, he kicked a leg and started breathing,

It would be another 5 minutes before paramedics arrived on the scene. Were it not for the immediate action taken by those strangers—people who knew nothing about this man, people who would soon scatter to their own destinations, people this man will never get the opportunity to thank—he would be dead right now, headed to the morgue instead of home to his family.

A vivid reminder of our shared humanity. One I won’t soon forget.