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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and guests about politics. It's Thursday,

July 30th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. In 1802, President Thomas

Jefferson signed into law the Military Peace Establishment Act, which created a regiment of military

engineers within the U.S. Army.

Over the following 200 years, the Army Corps of Engineers, as it came to be known,

has overseen large-scale engineering projects during wartime and peacetime,

at home and abroad, including the construction of the Washington Monument and the Panama Canal.

In an era when the Trump administration has adopted an adversarial relationship with many

federal agencies, the Army Corps of Engineers remains remarkably well-resourced and effective.

In March, the Corps reconstituted New York's Jacob Javitt's Convention Center into a

2,500-bed field hospital to combat the coronavirus pandemic, a project that took only four days.

It has since constructed dozens of facilities around the country to care for COVID-19 patients.

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