Top Trump official touts how DC makeover is proof America is rejecting 'decline by choice'

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is defending President Donald Trump ’s many initiatives to address infrastructure in Washington, D.C., calling it a visible reminder that the country needs to actively press back against decline. “Nations don’t crumble by fate — they decline by choice,” Burgum told Fox News Digital. “From rehabilitating and installing historic memorials, statues, and fountains to removing hundreds of instances of graffiti and cleaning up crime on our streets, this administration…