Legal challenge filed: A preservation nonprofit sued to stop the pool’s repainting, claiming the administration bypassed required consultations and environmental reviews. Costs balloon: Trump’s initial $1.8 million cost estimate has grown to $13.1 ...

President Trump has made false or exaggerated claims of a Civil War-era push for a triumphal arch, hundreds of millions spent on repairs on the Reflecting Pool, and an absence of working fountains.

A lawsuit from a nonprofit group has been filed which seeks to halt US President Donald Trump’s makeover of the historic Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington DC.