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The Trump administration is considering demolishing four historic Washington buildings, including those that housed the Department of Housing and Urban Development and Voice of America, a former government official alleged in a declaration.
The White House is independently soliciting bids to recommend the demolition of the historic buildings, without the input of the General Services Administration, which maintains government buildings, a retired GSA administrator said in a court declaration.
GSA has “sole authority over this process,” yet it has not conducted, to her knowledge, the procedures required under historic preservation and environmental laws for these buildings to be destroyed, the declaration by Mydelle Wright alleges.
“For the first time of which I am aware, a President is personally involved in facilitating end-runs around the agency’s obligations to the buildings that are our national heritage, and who in the agency is going to tell him ‘no?’” she wrote.
The allegation was made in a supplemental declaration in litigation brought by historic preservation groups fighting to block President Donald Trump from painting a stone federal building near the White House.
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