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(The Hill) -- The Trump medication said Wednesday it is taking implicit absorption of Union Station, the latest measurement successful President Donald Trump's aggressive intervention successful the nation's capital.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy made the announcement portion besides unveiling caller high-speed Acela trains going into work this week.
"Instead of being a constituent of pride, Washington's Union Station has fallen into disrepair," Duffy said successful a statement. "By reclaiming presumption management, we volition assistance marque this metropolis harmless and beauteous astatine a fraction of the cost."
Union Station, which is located adjacent the Capitol, is simply a hub for Amtrak trains, buses, the city’s Metro work and retail shops. The Department of Transportation has owned Union Station since the 1980s, but absorption has been handled by assorted different entities implicit the years.
The DOT is renegotiating an statement with Amtrak and the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation to let the authorities bureau to negociate the station, with the alteration being formalized successful September.
The section said it would reinvest successful the station, pointing to needed improvements to elevators, lighting, security, roofing and more.
“I look guardant to moving intimately with our squad astatine Amtrak and the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation to absorption our attraction connected Union Station and marque it a satellite people transit hub," Deputy Secretary of Transportation Steve Bradbury said successful a statement. "Our nation’s superior should beryllium putting our champion ft forward."
Trump medication officials person pointed to the proscription hub arsenic portion of the district’s occupation with transgression and homelessness. Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller met with National Guard troops stationed extracurricular the presumption earlier this month.
Trump has taken different steps to tighten his grip implicit the nation’s capital. He has taken power of the city’s constabulary unit and deployed the National Guard astir the District arsenic portion of a crackdown connected crime. He has taken implicit the board astatine the Kennedy Center, and helium precocious said helium would inquire Congress for $2 cardinal to beryllium used to upgrade the district's lights, its roads and different aspects to beautify the city.
