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发帖数: 4796 | 1 President Trump's Staff Complain of Cockroach, Mice and Ant Infestations
in the White House
Someone also requested a new toilet seat for the Oval Office
Abigail Abrams
The White House may be elaborately decorated for the holidays this time of
year, but work orders reveal the presidential mansion is also infested with
mice, cockroaches and ants.
The vermin came to light when NBC News4 Washington obtained hundreds of work
requests stretching back two years. Maintenance staff members at the White
House were asked to respond to reports of mice in both the White House Navy
mess and in the Situation Room, according to NBC.
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Staffers also found cockroaches in at least four different places on the
White House grounds. Another report showed ants in the White House chief of
staff’s office.
Some of the work orders were routine changes, such as former Press Secretary
Sean Spicer asking for new furniture shortly after the inauguration, while
others were more specific. The files show a request in late January, for
example, to replace the toilet seat in the Oval Office. The request included
instructions to replace the seat “after house please.”
Overall, there were a similar number of work orders submitted in 2017 under
the Trump administration compared to 2016 under President Barack Obama,
according to NBC.
“It’s an enormous job. GSA is assigned to manage that job,” former
General Services Administration Inspector General Brian Miller, whose office
formally monitored the agency’s performance, told the network. “GSA hires
contractors and subcontractors for the [maintenance] work. Then the agency
must watch over the contractors.”
Miller said many of the requests must be handled carefully due to the White
House’s historic nature.
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“They are old buildings,” Miller said. “Any of us who have old houses
know old houses need a lot of work.”
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