The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers quietly rolled back half the closures of recreational areas it had announced around Lake Lanier this week after public pushback from Georgia’s congressional delegation.

U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick, R-Suwanee, drew attention to the closures when he issued a statement Wednesday saying he was disappointed to learn about them ahead of the busy Memorial Day weekend, noting the lake draws more than 10 million visitors a year.

Meanwhile, Georgia’s two Democratic U.S. senators were blaming the administration of President Donald Trump, with Sen. Raphael Warnock attributing the closures to “reckless cuts,” and Sen. Jon Ossoff calling them “a direct and predictable result” of “reckless and chaotic mismanagement.”

The Army Corps triggered the barrage with an announcement Wednesday that it was temporarily shuttering parks and public use facilities at waterways in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, blaming “staffing shortages.”

The announcement included 20 sites at Lake Lanier, two at Allatoona Lake, one along Lake George W. Andrews southwest of Blakely, and a public shoreline area along the 240-mile Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River system.

On Thursday, the agency seemed to reverse course with another announcement that listed only 10 closures at Lake Lanier, or 11 depending upon how one counts the facilities. (The Thursday announcement listed as separate facilities two sites that would remain: Van Pugh North and Van Pugh South. The Wednesday announcement had listed them as one site.)

Warnock took some credit for the reversal, issuing a statement that said the Army Corps had scaled back the closures “following pressure” from him and Georgia families.

His office also took issue with McCormick’s suggestion that Democrats were partially responsible for the closures, even though Republicans control the federal government.

McCormick had said Democrats blocked an appropriations bill in the House of Representatives last year that would have prevented campground closures around Lake Lanier. Warnock’s office then noted that Republicans also controlled the House last year.

On Wednesday, McCormick said he was working with the Army Corps to find a solution before Memorial Day. On Friday, he merely shared the Army Corps’ update on X, without further comment.