{"id":22526,"date":"2026-05-12T01:22:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cost-of-trumps-reflecting-pool-repairs-balloon-by-11-3-million-to-13-1m\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T01:22:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:22:11","slug":"cost-of-trumps-reflecting-pool-repairs-balloon-by-11-3-million-to-13-1m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cost-of-trumps-reflecting-pool-repairs-balloon-by-11-3-million-to-13-1m\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of Trump&#8217;s reflecting pool repairs balloon by $11.3 million, to $13.1M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of President Trump&rsquo;s repairs to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have swelled by $11.3 million months after he first announced the project, which is intended to coincide with celebrations for the country&rsquo;s 250th founding anniversary.&nbsp; Originally, the president pegged $1.8 million for efforts to repaint the reflecting pool&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5872939-reflecting-pool-renovation-cost-increase\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of President Trump&rsquo;s repairs to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have swelled by $11.3 million months after he first announced the project, which is intended to coincide with celebrations for the country&rsquo;s 250th founding anniversary.&nbsp; Originally, the president pegged $1.8 million for efforts to repaint the reflecting pool&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}