President Donald Trump is defending the cost of a renovation project at the White House reflecting pool by arguing that former Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden spent hundreds of millions of dollars on similar work. Available federal records, however, show no evidence of expenditures on that scale.
Speaking about the ongoing project during a recent cabinet meeting, Trump took about 8 minutes to point to what he described as costly work undertaken by his Democratic predecessors, suggesting the current renovation is comparable to investments made under previous administrations.
