Trump and Moore play blame game over massive Potomac waste spill 

Published February 17, 2026 10:45am ET



President Donald Trump and Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) are trading blame over one of the largest sewage spills in U.S. history — a rupture of a major wastewater pipeline that dumped raw sewage into the Potomac River. 

Trump posted to Truth Social on Monday, calling the ecological disaster “a result of the Gross Mismanagement of Local Democrat Leaders, particularly, Governor Wes Moore, of Maryland.” 

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