The Trump administration is reportedly considering using an existing White House contract to start work on the president’s unrelated 250-foot “victory arch” project , even though the latter is more than a mile away across the Potomac River. In an April 22 email obtained by The Washington Post , National Park Service acting director Jessica Bowron allegedly floated extending an existing contract with the firm AECOM Services for work on the White House grounds to cover environmental assessment on the arch plan . “I realize it’s a little further afield than Lafayette Park ,” she wrote of the park across from the White House, “but given the engagement on this project from the [White House], I thought I’d check,” Bowron allegedly wrote. “Yes of course,” an individual in the Executive Office of the President reportedly replied. Elsewhere in the correspondence, Bowron reportedly fretted that AECOM hadn’t sent its “A team” to work on the existing contracts it has for the White House grounds .…