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rity deposit equal to six months' utility expenses, but it doesn't say what those figures are.
• Even so, it remains unclear how the foundation will cover the costs of running the museum, once it does open.
• So far, the foundation has been able to rely on corporate and individual donations and selling memorabilia. The annual expense was about $27.8 million last year, including four months of operating the memorial plaza, according to recently audited financial statements.
• But the expense is projected to jump to $60 million after the museum opens. The foundation plans to spend around $12 million a year on private security; operating the waterfalls costs another $4.5 million to $5 million annually, the foundation says.
• Foundation officials haven't responded to requests for information about other costs at the site.
• "Nobody is taking the money and building a hunting lodge for the trustees or having caviar and Champagne every night," Bloomberg said when asked about the operating expenses after an unrelated news conference. "It's a lot of money, but it costs that. Do you want a real budget, or do you want us to lie?"
• He said the costs could be covered by donations, by admission tickets to the museum -- the price has not been set, but the memorial president has suggested it could be up to $20 -- and from federal aid. A proposal for up to $20 million a year in federal money has hit roadblocks.
• Senate sponsors Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, and New York Democrats Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer said through their offices Monday that they continued to press for the money.
• "This is hallowed ground, and it deserves to be treated like other national monuments," Schumer said in an emailed statement.
• Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., has been blocking the measure. And he's not relenting, spokesman John Hart said Monday.
• "He believes it is wrong to pay for this by borrowing $200 million from future generations and foreign governments when the federal government is rife with waste and duplication," Hart said.
• The Sept. 11 memorial would be more costly to run than some of the other places where the nation remembers its dead -- Arlington National Cemetery, which receives 4 million visitors a year, costs $45 million annually, and Gettysburg National Military Park $8.4 million.
• But the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has an $81.2 million budget for this year, about $51 million of it expected in federal money and the rest from pri

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