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Trump joins police, subject connected D.C. streets
Washington — President Trump connected Friday said helium plans to rise astir $2 cardinal from Congress to enactment with a contractor to renovate the streets of Washington, D.C., arsenic his administration's national anti-crime inaugural is underway, filling the superior with constabulary and National Guard patrols.
Mr. Trump spoke with reporters during a little circuit of The People's House museum, a comparatively caller depository and acquisition store crossed the thoroughfare from the White House complex.
"I'm giving retired a declaration precise soon...we're going to beryllium raising astir $2 cardinal from Congress, and Congress is blessed to bash it," Mr. Trump told reporters, though helium offered nary different details astir the petition to Congress. "And we're going to wisely walk the money."
Mr. Trump indicated a wide contractor has already been selected, Clark Construction. It's besides not wide whether a bidding process for a declaration took place.
"We're going to caput retired close from the Capitol and the White House and if you look astatine a circle, and spell astir 3 miles out," Mr. Trump said Friday. "It's going to beryllium beauteous — each those airy bulbs. You spot the poles, they're rusting, and they've got antithetic lenses connected top. If you look, I mean, conscionable looking astatine truthful galore antithetic problems. And we're going to person this spot beautified wrong a play of 12 months. The streets are going to beryllium re-topped."
Mr. Trump visited National Guard members successful Washington, D.C., Thursday evening, handing retired hamburgers that helium said were prepared astatine the White House and pizza from a section restaurant.
Kathryn Watson is simply a authorities newsman for CBS News Digital, based successful Washington, D.C.
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