As he hopes to impact change more effectively in the investment than in his first term, President-elect Donald Trump has made revitalizing and cleaning up Washington, D.C. a crucial component of his second term.
” Right then, if you leave Florida – ‘ oh, this come, sweetheart, let’s look at the Jefferson Memorial, let’s look at the Washington Monument, let’s go and look at some of the beautiful displays,’ and you end up getting killed, mugged, raped”, Trump said at a Florida protest in July 2024.
” We’re gonna take over our money, and we’re gonna run it strong and intelligent. And we’re gonna beautify it, we’re gonna get all the artwork off the stone, we’re gonna fix the streets, and the middle — which are falling down all over the roads”, he added.
Trump and Muriel Bowser met last month in D.C., and one of the topics he brought up was the painting he saw when he visited the city in 2023, according to the Wall Street Journal. He informed the president that he would be taking steps to get rid of it.
During the conference, Bowser, who has formally said she is willing to work with Trump, told the president-elect about the lower crime statistics for 2024 and her ability to produce balanced costs, according to the report. The Justice Department announced in August that 2024 would have the lowest crime rates in 20 years, with violent crime rates over 35 %.
Trump and regional leaders have a common ground on the need to reinstate governmental employees. Since workers went isolated during the COVID-19 epidemic, in-person job hasn’t rebounded, and the city market has taken a huge hit.
” We firmly support federal employees ‘ efforts to return to office. Their existence is essential to the economy of D.C. and provides vital support for smaller businesses that have been severely impacted by rural work policies. Certainly, this will be a benefit to both the vitality of our world’s capital and the American citizens as a whole”, Bowser said in December.
Trump’s coming administration has already made plans to resign from their posts, which have largely sat vacant since 2020. The town launched an Office to Anything effort to redevelop those buildings in order to replace those that will remain clear.
While the D. C. regional government is looking to work more jointly with the incoming Trump administration, some Trump supporters have promised more involvement in the state’s activities.
” Washington is going to get an invasion like it’s never seen before”, Trump ally , Steve Bannon told the Wall Street Journal. ” It’s much more of a deliberate blow than earlier. Everything will be powerful at a level that people are not used to.
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On Wednesday, the D.C. Metro began distributing specific inauguration commemorative SmarTrip cards with Trump’s picture and his name on them as the 45th and 47th president. One indication of Trump’s return was on Wednesday when the city of Washington started handing out the cards.
While most D. C. council members are never expected to attend Trump’s opening, Bowser said she will as she prepares for four years under a Trump-led national government.
