Drones?

 For the record....President Donald Trump has directed his Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, to “immediately” determine the cause of the “drone scare” in New Jersey so he could inform the public. 

So a year into his administration....he White House has still not identified who or what was responsible for the unidentified drones.

My take?  There's only two likely scenarios.

First....the Chinese wanted to display their advanced 'tech'.

Second....several US companies have advanced 'tech' drones, and oddly...around the same time period....tested their stuff in front of the public.

Alien invasion crap?  No.

What Is With All This Fed Investigation Stuff?

 First, if you just wanted to renovate  a single bathroom in a DC fed building....by the time you finish with the simple project....you probably would have spent near $200,000.  So with the one  single Fed building....you can  figure any upgrade/improvement....would have been $500-million.

Second, at the end of 2024.....at the one-third point of  the project....they'd spent near $700-M.  

By the end of 2025, they'd spent near $500-M.  

At present, the end-total will be in the range of $2.5-B.  

Third, none of the money is congressional-given funds....it's  Fed-profits.  

You can figure that the project....probably still 30-to-40 percent to be done....will go past the $2.5-B. 

So Powell probably didn't grasp the full details of what was going on, and some investigation will reveal crappy planning.  Worth jail-time?  I doubt it....but some kind of change has to occur to prevent this from repeating.