Crews have begun work to remove the large yellow “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street one block from the White House.D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the change last week in response to pressure from activists Republicans in Congress.

Construction workers began removing Washington, D.C.'s Black Lives Matter Plaza mural on Monday, after Mayor Muriel Bowser pledged to redesign the plaza in response to Republican threats to cut the city's transportation funding unless it was renamed.