Home Republicans are drawing up plans to clean Black Lives Matter Plaza from the capital, The Publish has discovered.
The 2-block woke eyesore, simply steps from the White Home, options the phrase Black Lives Matter in 35-foot-tall yellow block letters, written throughout the asphalt of two metropolis blocks on the finish of sixteenth Avenue NW.
A “DEFUND THE POLICE” message alongside the mural was added by activists and later eliminated throughout roadwork in August 2020.
“The House Oversight Committee and the Trump Administration are working on delivering a number of reforms to make our nation’s capital safe and end left-wing pet projects. This includes addressing partisan abuses by the District government such as Black Lives Matter Plaza,” says Home Oversight Committee chair Rep. James Comer (R-Ky).
President Trump has made rooting out woke ideology from the federal authorities a high precedence. The committee declined to say which different tasks might be on the chopping block.
The mural and renaming got here within the feverish months after the demise of George Floyd in Might 2020 beneath the management of town’s longtime mayor Muriel Bowser.
However Congress has the facility to override choices from the native authorities, beneath the Dwelling Rule Act of 1973. In 2023, for instance, Congress did away with a legislation handed by the D.C. metropolis council that might have sharply lowered most penalties for violent crimes within the metropolis.
Trump and Republicans have referred to as for town to be totally taken over the federal authorities to assist stem town’s rampant violent crime.
“Mayor Bowser and Democrat-run Washington, D.C. are focused on virtue signaling and spending taxpayer money to paint Black Lives Matter instead of the record spike in homicides, carjackings, and other violent crimes,” stated Arkansas GOP Sen. Tom Cotton.
“Washington D.C.’s failures are a reminder why the city must never become a state,” he added.
