The Perils of Government Housing
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is an old house, and it’s constantly in need of repairs, plumbers and exterminators.
A list of work orders processed by maintenance crews at the White House shows roaches in the staff kitchen, mice in the Situation Room, leaks in the ceilings and a broken toilet seat in the president’s private restroom.
NBC4 in Washington obtained the repair list via a Freedom On Information Act request.
‘WW NM pest control to treat for cockroaches in the dining rooms,’ reads one work order.
That’s a reference to the West Wing’s Navy Mess, a wood-paneled restaurant in the White House basement that seats about 50 people on elegantly appointed tables with fresh flowers and official White House china.
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Down the hall in the high-stakes Situation Room, exterminators were called to deal with a mouse infestation.
‘RODENT PROBLEM,’ that work order read.
Another work order was closed out by a staffer who reported resolving a problem with ‘ants in the window sill’ of the Chief of Staff’s office.
‘I removed a lot by killing them,’ the worker wrote.
The problems go beyond critters and bugs. Plumbers were called to ‘[i]nvestigate water leaking from ceiling in [the] Press Office’ on the first floor.
And workmen were dispatched to replace a broken toilet seat in the president’s private bathroom near the Oval Office shortly after Donald Trump took office.
‘After hours please,’ the maintenance crew was told.
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