Source: The American Prospect
by Gabrielle Gurley
“San Juan Capistrano has swallows, Provincetown has whales, and spring doesn’t arrive in Washington until the cherry blossoms do. Mobs of tourists and locals will descend on the sublime white-and-pink cherry trees that circle the Tidal Basin below the Jefferson Memorial for an annual event rivaled only by the Fourth of July. It’s no small exercise to deploy the staff, volunteers, police, and cleanup crews necessary to pull together the festival that pumps millions into the District of Columbia economy. And yet after historic and sudden federal budget cuts were signed into law last week, it would be easy to come up with a dark side to Washington’s countdown to the peak blooms expected at the end of March.” (03/20/25)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-03-20-washington-on-the-brink/