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Democrats want to stop Trump's arch, golf course and more. What are their options? November 12, 202612:13 PM ET

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Rachel Treisman

President Trump signed the final steel beam at the White House ballroom the day after the midterm elections. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption

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President Trump's efforts to remake Washington, D.C., have dominated his second term, even after his party's resounding midterm defeat.

He started his election week at the scandal-plagued Reflecting Pool and ended it with an order declaring his gilded Oval Office a national monument to "make it impossible for anybody ever to destroy this incredible space."