White House set to receive deep cleaning ahead of inauguration
Source: ABC
According to government contracts reviewed by ABC News, more than $200,000 has been spent for increased White House janitorial and housekeeping work, including $127,249 on "2021 Inaugural Cleaning" and another $44,038 on "Inaugural carpet cleaning." There was $29,523 spent for "Inaugural curtains cleaning."
While the White House is always deep-cleaned during the transition between presidents, that work is usually handled by White House staff, including butlers, ushers and maintenance crews. Contracting out additional cleaning services is unprecedented in modern times, according to Kate Brower Andersen, presidential historian and former White House reporter.
"We've never seen this before," Brower Andersen said on ABC News' "Powerhouse Politics" podcast. "The Government Services Administration has said they're going to do this very deep cleaning -- cleaning every surface of the 55,000 square foot mansion. There's always been a deep clean between administrations, but we've never seen anything like this."
In a statement, a GSA spokesperson said, "GSA will thoroughly clean and disinfect the building spaces between the administrations and ensure that everything is up to standard. Cleaning will include, but is not limited to, all furniture, flooring, window treatments, handrails, door knobs, light switches, countertops, elevator buttons, restroom fixtures and dispensers, door handles and push plates, and lighting fixtures."
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-set-to-receive-deep-cleaning-ahead-of-inauguration/ar-BB1cLbVW?ocid=hplocalnews
Must be quite the stink and what a load of bucks to make the White House clean again!
No "security deposit" it seems.
JustAnotherGen
(31,780 posts)And have been pretty reckless. I wouldn't want President Elect Biden walking in and having to touch things that haven't been sterilized.
salin
(48,955 posts)Dale Neiburg
(696 posts)Not the kind that go after hamberder debris -- the kind that report to the Kremlin.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)This will all have to be re-done before Biden can move in.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)The damn Russians had full run of the oval remember?
Autumn
(44,972 posts)nothing they have been in contact with isn't sanitized.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I wouldn't trust anybody Trump hires.
What they are really doing is anybody's guess. Planting bugs and IEDs? Shredding documents? Shitting on the carpets?
CountAllVotes
(20,863 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,560 posts)Orange spray tan with a silhouette of the moron, remote controls, broken TV, a bust of Putin, golf clubs, fast food container, broken phone, cell phone with twitter on it, his big sharpie signature on a paper, the American flag that he colored incorrectly while visiting a Kindergarten, empty soda cans, a bottle of bleach, a long red tie, and outside the window itRump is clawing at the ground as he is pulled away from the White House.
LiberalArkie
(15,703 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,560 posts)Good catch.
LiberalArkie
(15,703 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,560 posts)I think she was decapitated.
LiberalArkie
(15,703 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,560 posts)He managed to get a lot in to that one drawing.
LiberalArkie
(15,703 posts)iluvtennis
(19,825 posts)thucythucy
(8,037 posts)in the lower right hand corner.
MontanaMama
(23,294 posts)was pee....I now see the outline of the monster....still could be pee though.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,560 posts)so my eye is trained to observe the details. As a teacher I made up similar assignments where students had to find specific things on a page. They loved doing it, whether 1st grade or 6th.
BainsBane
(53,010 posts)as well as the country.
Livbaker
(23 posts)what does the date say on the right side?
mysteryowl
(7,361 posts)I agree, let it settle and air out after the cleaning.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)I read in another post that the Obamas let secret service use their restrooms because Ivanka/Jared wouldn't allow it in their house.
Lasher
(27,533 posts)The President's Guest House has traditionally been made available by the outgoing president of the United States to the president-elect in the five days prior to his inauguration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Guest_House#Lee_House
mysteryowl
(7,361 posts)My guess is, for security reasons, they won't tell us.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)So will the Capitol, and pretty much every Federal building.
Putin has bugs in all of them, and Trump's maskholes have spewed COVID everywhere.
Lasher
(27,533 posts)OTOH, I dont trust Trump.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)CanonRay
(14,080 posts)Initech
(100,028 posts)Mabel
(79 posts)Is there enough Clorox in the world to accomplish clean up after Trump?
GeorgeGist
(25,310 posts)Fumigation ⛺.
Chainfire
(17,458 posts)ultrasonic cleaner before beginning the deep cleaning. If I were President Biden, I would feel a little creepy sleeping where Trump had slept. I might have to spend the first few nights in the tool shed out back until the suite cooled off.
I hope they change the toilet seat....
Blue Owl
(50,236 posts)Seriously, that fat piece of shit has soaked into the place at a level normal cleaning can't remove...
ChazInAz
(2,556 posts)If I recall correctly, Truman had the entire building gutted and refurbished. (That's where that balcony on the portico came from, so he could sit up there and watch baseball games in a nearby stadium.)
marybourg
(12,584 posts)spent about 3 years living in Blair House while the work was being done.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)The place was in terrible condition.
Now, it's been deliberately contaminated, and is most likely full of Putin's bugs.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)The Trumps must have all sorts of nasty germs everywhere. It must have been a dangerous year for the cleaning staff considering how many white house staffers caught and spread COVID.
mysteryowl
(7,361 posts)I would recommend after cleaning the duct system to run Ozone through it to purify it.
marlakay
(11,424 posts)If Trump and his people still there?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)It will have to be done by real workers after the inauguration.
cstanleytech
(26,220 posts)paint to cover over.
Might be best to strip the whole thing to the studs and remodel the entire office just to be sure.
C Moon
(12,208 posts)pnwmom
(108,953 posts)I hope they are, and they're just not announcing this.
Layzeebeaver
(1,613 posts)The Ruskies have planted listening devices or at least made attempts.
I'm sure it will be swept, but there will be no mention of it.
marble falls
(56,987 posts)Swamp Country Po Boy
(73 posts)And I don't even wanna think about the Aura of Incompetence! $$$$$$$
rpannier
(24,327 posts)That's what it should be spent on
NellieStarbuck
(265 posts)Malmsy
(297 posts)Russian ones.
twodogsbarking
(9,664 posts)by just the thought of the smell.
NellieStarbuck
(265 posts)I figured it had only to do with fetid air, disease and bad juju.
twodogsbarking
(9,664 posts)with cologne that smells like Lysol; four years buildup.
Sancho
(9,067 posts)Major Nikon
(36,818 posts)BainsBane
(53,010 posts)Because they are moving into a COVID hotspot.