Why in god's name he said $250,000 in the first place is beyond me. Who actually believed that? And yet, twenty one million????
They gave us land we can't use? Priceless. We're now the world's patsy.“We’re going to have it built very quickly and inexpensively,” Trump told reporters at a March press event with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following his December decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and relocate the US Embassy from Tel Aviv. “They put an order in front of my desk last week for $1 billion. … We’re actually doing it for about $250,000, so check that out.”
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Trump has repeated versions of this claim multiple times, gradually raising the price tag up to $400,000, including during a bilateral press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in April.
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Documents uploaded this week to the official database of federal spending show that Maryland-based joint venture Desbuild Limak D&K has been awarded a $21.2 million award to design and build “addition and compound security upgrades” to the embassy in Jerusalem’s Arnona neighborhood. That’s in addition to the $335,000 spent to get the facility, formally a US consulate, ready for its ritzy grand opening as an embassy back in May.
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The Israelis gifted land in Jerusalem for the United States to build a permanent embassy, the aide said, but the United States is unable to use it because of zoning issues.
Al-Monitor
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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