Builder of Trump Ballroom Given $17M for Project Biden Admin Said Would Cost $3M: “They just took the cover page of my estimate and just added a bunch of money,” the original cost estimator said.

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>The agency undertook numerous unusual measures both to ensure that Clark would be granted the project without competition, and that it would be given over quintuple the original cost estimate to complete it.

>For instance, the administration used inflation as a reason to tack on another $2 million to the project. Officials also invoked an exception, citing “urgency,” to bypass the part of the typical federal contracting process requiring the government to consider multiple bids for the project in order to save money. This exception has not been used in 99 percent of NPS contracts in the past decade, according to the Times.

>The consultant who did the estimate for the Biden administration, Stephen J. Kirk, told the Times that the additions to the budget were completely arbitrary.

>“They just took the cover page of my estimate and just added a bunch of money onto it,” said Kirk. “I didn’t add those extra millions on there.”

* The administration said that the project was urgent because of the nation’s 250th birthday celebration coming up this July. But one expert, contracting law expert Steven L. Schooner, said that this excuse is frivolous.

>“No one will die. No one’s quality of life will be diminished. **There is nothing urgent about this**,” he said. “Self-imposed deadlines aren’t urgency. And lack of planning isn’t urgency.”

Can the press and posters stop banging on about the bloody ballroom. Yes it’s a waste of money and needless, but it’s just a PRESS distraction from some very foundational issues including Epstein, that they choose not to INVESTIGATE.