“The East Wing is gone, a new helipad is spreading across the lawn, and scaffolding wraps the White House’s front columns, but the price tags for President Trump’s renovations are far less obvious,” Axios reports.
“The muddled mix of funding streams — whether from private donors, the president himself or taxpayers — has fueled ethical questions about who’s footing the ever-rising bill for the HGTV-reminiscent White House redesign.”


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