Overview
- The Interior Department confirmed that David Schutzenhofer, the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster manager, is advising the project as an unpaid volunteer, with reports noting he has no engineering or architecture training.
- Emails cited in news reports indicate Schutzenhofer helped recruit Ohio-based Greenwater Services, and government records show the company received a $1.7 million contract for the work.
- The agency said Schutzenhofer is not a federal employee and did not steer contracting, which would have required ethics training and conflict-of-interest pledges if he had joined the government.
- Work on a bright blue resurfacing is underway, and Trump has shared test photos and said he expects the job to finish before July 4.
- The overhaul is now reported at about $13.1 million, up from the roughly $1.8 million price Trump first touted, for a pool that often leaks through its concrete slabs and grows algae in its shallow water.