{"id":94351,"date":"2026-06-01T02:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/patrick-mchenry-trump-cleaning-fixing-up-d-c-should-be-beyond-politics-nations-capital-is-better-safer\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T02:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T02:42:16","slug":"patrick-mchenry-trump-cleaning-fixing-up-d-c-should-be-beyond-politics-nations-capital-is-better-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/patrick-mchenry-trump-cleaning-fixing-up-d-c-should-be-beyond-politics-nations-capital-is-better-safer\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick McHenry: Trump Cleaning, Fixing Up D.C. Should Be Beyond Politics. Nation&#8217;s Capital is Better, Safer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Former North Carolina GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry told <A href=\"\">ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; roundtable he is impressed at President Trump&#8217;s success in cleaning up Washington D.C. &#8212; aesthetically,   <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PATRICK MCHENRY: But the facts remain. So he&#8217;s raised money. He&#8217;s fixed fountains. He&#8217;s restored statues. Parks are now accessible here in Washington, D.C. That&#8217;ll live far beyond this presidency. That should be a public good, and I think is a public good.  JON KARL: And it is, I mean, it&#8217;s a priority for him to fix this stuff and needs fixing up.  MCHENRY: The 250th anniversary is fantastic. And that should be beyond politics. But everything is so political now. Fixing all the stuff in the National Mall, what I can say, and I agree, Jon, Washington is a beautiful city. But when Americans come here to visit, they are shocked at how grubby D.C. was.  And the president restoring it is something, it&#8217;s an obsession the American people should be pretty happy with, that he&#8217;s going to leave this place better and safer than he found it. Unexpected, I would say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/05\/31\/patrick_henry_trump_cleaning_fixing_up_dc_should_be_beyond_politics_nations_capital_is_better_safer.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former North Carolina GOP Rep. Patrick McHenry told ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; roundtable he is impressed at President Trump&#8217;s success in cleaning up Washington D.C. &#8212; aesthetically, PATRICK MCHENRY: But the facts remain. So he&#8217;s raised money. He&#8217;s fixed fountains. He&#8217;s restored statues. Parks are now accessible here in Washington, D.C. That&#8217;ll live far beyond this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1483,503,2866,12261,10286,15871,29355,10530,799,7829,13778,609,5395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}