AG Pam Bondi visiting Alcatraz to announce reopening plans as Pelosi blasts 'stupidest' idea

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum are successful San Francisco visiting Alcatraz Thursday greeting and are expected to denote plans to reopen the national penitentiary.

Back successful May, President Trump started talking astir reopening the tract arsenic a national prison.

Congress is expected to present a measure to extremity biology protections for Alcatraz and instrumentality distant the National Park Service's power of the site.

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It's already getting beardown reactions from section leaders.

In a statement, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi called it, "...the Trump Administration's stupidest inaugural yet," saying "It should interest america each that intelligibly the lone intelligence resources the Administration has drawn upon for this foolish conception are decades-old fictional Hollywood movies."

Alcatraz presently generates astir $60 cardinal successful yearly revenue, according to the National Park Service.

Refurbishing the land and gathering a caller situation would outgo astatine slightest a 4th of a cardinal dollars, according to estimates.

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ABC7 News Insider Phil Matier weighed successful connected the plans and visit.

"He wants to marque a connection astir being pugnacious connected crime," Matier said. "He said Alcatraz worked, but successful its day. It's clip to bring it backmost successful bid to antagonistic municipality crime. But this, marque nary mistake. This is simply a photograph op. This is simply a publicity stunt. This is simply a circuit successful bid to seizure the representation of them successful San Francisco connected Alcatraz, declaring that Donald Trump is pugnacious connected crime, truthful pugnacious that he's going to reopen The Rock."

California Governor Gavin Newsom's Press Office issued a connection saying, "Pam Bondi volition reopen Alcatraz the aforesaid time Trump lets her merchandise the Epstein files. So... never."

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie issued a connection saying, "There's nary realistic program to marque Alcatraz reopen arsenic thing different than the fantastic tourer attraction that it presently is..."

"It's present beauteous overmuch similar an aged past castle retired determination that tourists spell to," Matier said. "Turning it into a national penitentiary is going to instrumentality a batch of wealth and past operating. It's going to instrumentality a batch of money, but readying for it and showing drawings and making a connection astir it. That's a batch cheaper, and that's what we're seeing close now."