ANALYSIS — The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool began filling with water on June 4 following maintenance work that President Donald Trump called a “big project.” In late May, Trump claimed that “the Biden administration and the Obama administration spent hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get it to work, and they failed,” adding that his administration was spending “$10 million, […]
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FactCheck.org finds no evidence that Obama and Biden spent 'hundreds of millions' on renovation
Workers prepare for the reopening of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on June 8. The pool is expected to be open by the Fourth of July. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Posted June 12, 2026 at 11:02am
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President Donald Trump has claimed that the Obama and Biden administrations spent “hundreds of millions of dollars” to fix the…
In April, President Donald Trump announced a project to revamp the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, hiring a contractor to coat…
President Donald Trump says the renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is complete
The president is completely ignoring a “major underlying problem” with one of his costly revamps.
A New York Times report this week cited government documents that acknowledged the renovations may not be completed on schedule.
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