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Trump’s Preferred Construction Firm Lands $1.3 Billion Border Wall Contract, the Biggest So Far

May 20, 2020

1000w_q95 - 2020-04-09T140754.341 — U.S. Army Corps of Engineers South Pacific Border District contractor crews level a 30-foot barrier panel at the Barry M. Goldwater Range along the U.S.-Mexico border near Yuma, Arizona, March 24, 2020. (Photo by James Woods/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, South Pacific Border District)

A North Dakota construction firm that has received backing from President Trump has now secured the largest border wall contract ever awarded, a $1.3 billion deal to build 42 miles of black-painted fencing through the rugged mountains of southern Arizona.

The company that won the contract, Fisher Sand and Gravel, has been repeatedly lauded by the president in White House meetings with border officials and military commanders, the result of a long and personalized marketing pitch to Trump and ardent supporters of his barrier project.

After its initial bids for border contracts were passed over, the company and its CEO, Tommy Fisher, cut a direct path to the president by praising him on cable news, donating to his Republican allies and cultivating ties to former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon, GOP Senate candidate Kris Kobach and other conservative figures in Trump’s orbit.

Read more at The Washington Post

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