Donald Trump has hit a major snag in his efforts to refurbish one of D.C.’s most recognizable landmarks as part of his wider bid to revamp the nation’s capital in his own image ahead of America’s 250th birthday.
A trade union official told The Guardian that the president may be risking workers’ safety by charging ahead to complete renovations at the Reflecting Pool ahead of the quarter-millennial anniversary in July of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
“With this project, they are trying to rush on a timescale that is most likely to leave some liability with the contractor,” Herbert Zaldivar, business development director at the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades, told the newspaper Sunday after observing work at the site.
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