President Trump is bypassing standard government contracting procedures to fast-track renovations of Washington, D.C.'s most iconic public spaces—Lafayette Park, the Reflecting Pool, and a proposed Triumphal Arch—spending tens of millions in taxpayer dollars with minimal oversight, raisin
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