WASHINGTON, June 25 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley issued the following press release:
Today, Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley-Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee and Ranking Member of the Senate Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee-launched an investigation into the Trump Administration's renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool ahead of America's 250th anniversary, which has so far reportedly cost American taxpayers more than $16 million (https://abcnews.com/US/reflecting-pool-renovations-cost-16-million/story?id=134024265).
Within weeks of the renovation's completion, the Reflecting Pool suffered its worst algae bloom in years (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/06/18/algae-detected-reflecting-pool-highe...