Stacks of empty boxes were delivered to the White House on Wednesday, while the clock continues to tick for the Trump administration.
Pallets of cardboard boxes were delivered to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, as the Biden administration is scheduled to take office in a week on January 20. Most of the offices in the building are for White House employees.
The Biden government plans to thoroughly clean up the White House itself.
Government contracts and purchase orders analyzed by NBC News show that the cost of additional cleaning totals almost half a million dollars. Top-down cleaning, which CNN reported for the first time, is above and beyond what normally occurs during the well-choreographed change of residence conducted by White House porters, butlers and housekeepers, and follows several outbreaks of coronavirus in the grounds of the White House. White House.
The State Department announced on Wednesday that Biden would stay at Blair House the night before the inauguration, which President Donald Trump said he would not attend.
“As usual, the White House offered to use the Blair House for January 19 and was accepted,” said a State Department spokesman.
Trump is expected to move to his resort in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, after leaving office.
