Federal information present that the no-bid contract to restore the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and paint it blue now prices $13.1 million. That’s about seven instances the quantity President Trump initially mentioned it might value.
By David A. Fahrenthold, Nikolay Nikolov, Gilad Thaler, Rafaela Balster, Léo Hamelin, Stephanie Swart and Whitney Shefte
Could 14, 2026
