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What Color Is the Reflecting Pool? An Investigation.

President Trump wanted the Reflecting Pool to be an American-flag blue—“instead, he’s gotten a swamp,” Matt Viser says. He reports from Washington, D.C., on the foiled project that cost taxpayers at least $16.4 million:

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