A House hearing turns into a migrant-child fightMarkwayne Mullin and Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro got into a heated exchange during a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Homeland Security. DeLauro pressed Mullin about separated children and said 3,900 had been taken from their families. Mullin fired back with a much larger number, saying 450,000 children had been lost during the Biden years. That is the kind of number that should stop a hearing cold, but in Washington it mostly just starts a louder argument. The federal government seems able to track every other detail in American life, except the one that matters most when children are involved: where they actually are.Mullin says Democrats ignored the bigger problemMullin used the exchange to argue that Democrats are suddenly concerned only after the border crisis became too large to hide behind talking points. He said DeLauro never spoke up when the Biden administration lost hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children and placed many with unvetted sponsors. Earlier this month, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said many of those children were sexually assaulted or abused, which is the part of this story that ought to make every office on Capitol Hill a little less…

The Reflecting Pool got cleaner, and the spin got louderThe Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has been getting its algae problem under control, which is good news for anyone who thinks a national monument should look like one. Greenwater Services was hired in April by the Department of the Interior for the procurement and installation of a fully integrated Nano Bubble Filtration System to replace the failing filtration gear at the pool. That should have been a routine fix. Instead, it became another Washington fight over who gets to wave the most confident flag while the water turns green. Left-wing outlets have tried to turn the contractor into a scandal because a part-owner is a GOP donor and, in the modern media age, apparently every filter must pass a political background check before it can touch water. CNN added its own shouting match, with Democratic strategist Ameshia Cross blaming Trump for the algae and for the contract, while Scott Jennings pushed back on the standard script that every civic repair must be either a scam or a slogan.https://twitter.com/ConradsonJordan/status/2069914163711774741?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Greenwater says the fix is ozone, nano bubbles, and a lot less dramaIn an interview, Greenwater spokeswoman Erin Kramer said the company is…