Race to the bottom: Trump’s $183 Billion Attack on American Culture and Heritage
This weekend, Donald Trump is turning the heart of our democracy into a taxpayer-funded racetrack.
If a catastrophic, high-speed crash were to occur—scattering carbon-fiber shrapnel and burning ethanol fuel, or triggering a massive structural fire—the cultural devastation would be irreversible.
By forcing this race onto the Mall, the administration is playing Russian roulette with irreplaceable artifacts of American art and history. They are risking the original Declaration of Independence and the Constitution at the National Archives. They are endangering Leonardo da Vinci’s Ginevra de' Benci—the only da Vinci painting on public view in the Americas. They are threatening the 1903 Wright Flyer and the Apollo 11 Command Module.
And there is incredible risk of damage to the over 2,500 square feet of priceless, New Deal-era buon fresco murals physically bound into the walls of the Wilbur J. Cohen building, which could be obliterated by structural shockwaves or water damage from emergency fire suppression.
Republicans have been trying to bulldoze the Cohen building since Trump took office, and the only reason it is still standing is because of the attention and resistance that Social Security Works and our members have created.
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