Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) plans to force a Senate vote next week on two new resolutions aimed at preventing President Trump from demolishing the Kennedy Center or building his proposed triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery. Why it matters: Senate Democrats are putting Republicans on notice that they're prepared to use every available legislative means, including the appropriations process later this year, to stymie Trump's efforts to erect or erase memorials in the D.C. area. Driving the news: Merkley will introduce his two bills when the Senate returns next week and then seek unanimous consent to consider them at the first opportunity. - That's likely to fail, but Democrats will have the procedural upper hand at the end of…
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) plans to force a Senate vote next week on two new resolutions aimed at preventing President Trump from demolishing the Kennedy Center or building his proposed triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery. Why it matters: Senate Democrats are putting Republicans on notice that they're prepared to use every available legislative means, including the appropriations process later this year, to stymie Trump's efforts to erect or erase memorials in the D.C. area. Driving the news: Merkley will introduce his two bills when the Senate returns next week and then seek unanimous consent to consider them at the first opportunity. - That's likely to fail, but Democrats will have the procedural upper hand at the end of…Open
The New York Times reports the contractor that renovated the Reflecting Pool told the Trump administration that errors in its own work and flaws in the plan caused the pool's new blue liner to peel and break loose—not vandalism.
The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.
The New York Times' Maggie Haberman tells me 70% of President Trump's mindshare ("maybe plus or minus 5%") goes to his gilding, construction, renovation, renaming and tribute projects. - "He is spending a huge amount of energy, mental and otherwise, on these renovation projects, beautification projects around Washington, and then monuments to self," Haberman told me for Axios' "Behind the Curtain" video series . "[T]here is no precedent in U.S. history of a sitting president devising such endeavors in their own name." Why it matters: That mental map by Haberman — co-author with Jonathan Swan of "Regime Change ," which has sold 600,000 copies and on Wednesday hit seven weeks at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list — is a…
The New York Times' Maggie Haberman tells me 70% of President Trump's mindshare ("maybe plus or minus 5%") goes to his gilding, construction, renovation, renaming and tribute projects. - "He is spending a huge amount of energy, mental and otherwise, on these renovation projects, beautification projects around Washington, and then monuments to self," Haberman told me for Axios' "Behind the Curtain" video series . "[T]here is no precedent in U.S. history of a sitting president devising such endeavors in their own name." Why it matters: That mental map by Haberman — co-author with Jonathan Swan of "Regime Change ," which has sold 600,000 copies and on Wednesday hit seven weeks at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list — is a…Open
