David Fahrenthold
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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Well, yeah, I think we have a couple of causes that seem pretty plausible.
One is that they filled the pool with city tap water, which is actually full of stuff called phosphates that are supposed to design to stop corrosion in pipes, but also feed algae.
And also that they turned off the filters for 36 hours to have a better backdrop for this UFC fight.
So, yeah, I think that's a pretty good explanation of why we saw that bright green algae bloom that really mucked up the pool for several days.
I still want to know more about why the bottom of the pool is coming off, though.
Remember, we spent millions and millions of dollars to put blue coating on the bottom of the pool.
And after a few days, it started peeling off and floating to the top.
They're going to have to drain the pool again to fix that.
And I'd really like to know what went wrong that allowed that to happen so quickly.
Well, the thing to start with here, Jen, is that this was a no-bid contract, right?
The government gave away a contract to this company that had never really done any project like this before, never done any government contract before, without doing the things that make government contracting work usually, looking around for other bids, seeing if they could find people who could do the job better or more cheaply.
They just chose these people and handed them this money and this contract.
And along the way, there were warning signs.
People within the Interior Department warned that their paint job had bubbles, it had holes, it had blisters.
There were concerns that it wouldn't really work.
And so once they filled the pool with water and it starts peeling up, yeah, then there's millions of dollars spent on this job that didn't even last a month.
Well, so many of these things are no bid contracts, right?
The filtration system on the reflecting pool was a no bid contract to a company owned by a guy who lives near Mar-a-Lago.
There's no bid contracts to renovate the fountains in front of the White House in Lafayette Park.
That went to the same company that's building Trump's ballroom.
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