Bechtel has close relationships with the official of the US government, including the (ex) president Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. The company also has excellent relationships with other governments, especially with the Saudi royal family.
The company was criticized for the claimed mismanagement of the BIG-DIG project, its financial connections to the Bin-Laden family and the wise in which it received the Iraq again in 2003 after the US invasion.
Politicians in the United States and Europe raised allegations of corruption with regard to relationships between the Bush and Bechtel government.