President Donald Trump and his administration are bringing a lot of welcome change to the government, and it can't come fast enough. 

A new report on Friday about conditions at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center truly brings that into sharp focus. 

Conservative commentator Buck Sexton posted about a big problem of flooding at the premiere hospital that had crippled operations. 

This flooding is inside Walter Reed National Military Medical center- source tells me following years of neglect, a critical steam system failure has crippled all non-emergency operations. Critical situation at military medicine’s flagship institution. pic.twitter.com/rnmNDITHc0

— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) January 31, 2025

This flooding is inside Walter Reed National Military Medical center- source tells me following years of neglect, a critical steam system failure has crippled all non-emergency operations. Critical situation at military medicine’s flagship institution.

Walter Reed serves our military and also is where the President gets care. This is just unacceptable. 

According to the Washington Post, the problems started in "mid-January."

Since then, there have been multiple breakdowns that have left the hospital unable to handle a large influx of patients should a crisis occur, according to internal emails and imagery obtained by The Post, and two Walter Reed staffers who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the situation.

The source of the flooding, a burst sprinkler pipe, spewed 60,000 gallons of water before it was contained — enough “to fill a 25x50 foot swimming pool,” according to an email sent to Walter Reed staff on Monday from the medical center’s director, Navy Capt. Melissa C. Austin. Five buildings and dozens of rooms and hallways were affected, the email says. Video and other imagery obtained by The Post show water gushing from pipes, soaked ceiling tiles that crumbled and fell to the floor, and a constant drip of liquid falling like rain from the rafters.

Another infrastructure failure, the breakdown and leak of the hospital’s steam system, happened around Jan. 18 and has compromised staff’s ability to sterilize surgical equipment while sharply reducing the number of surgeries performed there, said one of Walter Reed’s employees.

The sterile processing department has become “nonfunctional,” according to a recent briefing slide shared with Walter Reed staff and obtained by The Post. The document says a concurrent release of steam has created “unbearable conditions” in the general surgery department, with temperatures reaching to 112 degrees.

How does something even get to this condition and why were they left like this? 

The newly confirmed Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, confirmed the problem and chastised the prior administration for leaving things in bad condition. 

We looked into this - it's real and unacceptable.

This is a result of deferred maintenance under the last administration. My staff is prioritizing fixing this, and under this President our troops will only receive the best care. https://t.co/evnYMarGRz

— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) January 31, 2025

We looked into this - it's real and unacceptable. This is a result of deferred maintenance under the last administration. My staff is prioritizing fixing this, and under this President our troops will only receive the best care.

This was left in a mess and we didn't hear about it in the media until after Biden was out of office, and people there were apparently having to deal with the conditions. 

Unfortunately, we know about things like the border and the economy. But there are likely all manner of things like this that have been left under the radar and not fully addressed. The new Trump team heads like Hegseth are going to have to look through all their responsibilities to examine where the problems are.

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