FACT FOCUS: Trump says Obama and Biden spent 'hundreds of millions' on reflecting pool. They did not (opens in new tab)

Covered by 11 sources including WIRED, The Conversation

President Donald Trump has claimed that the Obama and Biden administrations spent “hundreds of millions of dollars” to fix the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and alleged that renovations he is currently overseeing will be much more economical.

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