What happened

The Trump administration said it will restore and reinstall two Civil War monuments: a statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike in Washington, D.C., that protesters toppled and burned in 2020, and a Confederate memorial removed from Arlington National Cemetery in 2023 on the advice of a bipartisan commission established by Congress.

The plans are part of a "series of moves" by the administration to "restore Confederate names and symbols" discarded in the wake of the 2020 murder of George Floyd , The Washington Post said.

Who said what

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday he was "proud to announce" that the 32-foot bronze monument created in 1914 by Confederate veteran Moses Ezekiel and commissioned by the United Daughters of the Confederacy would be "rightfully r

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