Doesn't it often bloom and fade, despite it being particularly bad right now? I bet you 10 bux he's going to just wait for it to recede naturally and pretend that he pissed in the water and it turned itself to gold or some such.
It's a nearabout annual occurrence, yes. Comes and goes regularly. There's identified contributing factors (note: They're largely ones a GOP ways politician wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole), but it's mostly natural as near as anyone seems to be able to tell.
Though no, it wasn't a promise to "look into it". Words were explicitly 'get rid of'. Pandering, definitely, but that shit was a specific promise, not a non-specific one.