Crews are draining the Lincoln Memorial's Reflecting Pool again as President Donald Trump's problem-plagued effort to renovate the site pushes past his initial July 4 deadline
To be fair to the regime (there’s something I never thought I’d type) the reflecting pool had been kept clean in the past by paying people (National Park Service workers) to wade out into it and clean it on the regular. Then the DOGE crew laid off a ton of Park Service personnel. Then our dear leader began howling about the green water.
This timeline may imply some details that I’ve got wrong, but it’s hard to be sympathetic to the regime, given the general picture of its priorities it paints, which I believe is generally correct.
To be fair to the regime (there’s something I never thought I’d type) the reflecting pool had been kept clean in the past by paying people (National Park Service workers) to wade out into it and clean it on the regular. Then the DOGE crew laid off a ton of Park Service personnel. Then our dear leader began howling about the green water.
This timeline may imply some details that I’ve got wrong, but it’s hard to be sympathetic to the regime, given the general picture of its priorities it paints, which I believe is generally correct.
Yet another quietly ignored DOGE fuck-up