House Republicans are planning to scrub Black Lives Matter Plaza from the capital, Post learned.
The two blocks awakened alarm just outside the White House is 35 feet tall yellow block letters written on the asphalt of two city blocks at the end of northwest 16th Street, featuring the phrase Black Lives Matter.
A “Refund Police” message along with the mural was added by activists and was removed during road construction in August 2020.
“The House Oversight Committee and the Trump administration are working to implement a number of reforms to ensure our country's capital is safe and to end the left-wing pet project, including efforts to tackle partisan abuse by district governments, such as Black Lives Matter Plaza,” says House Oversight Committee Chairman James Kommer (R-KY).
President Trump has made awakening ideology from the federal government a top priority. The committee refused to say which other projects could be in the chopping block.
The mural and rename came in a frenzy of months after George Floyd died in May 2020 under the leadership of the city's longtime Mayor Muriel Bowser.
However, the council has the power to override decisions from local governments under the Home Rules Act of 1973. For example, council repealed a law passed by the DC City Council, which would have dramatically reduced the largest penalty for violent crimes in the city.
Trump and Republicans are urging the city to take the federal government entirely to stop the city's rampaging violent crime.
“Instead of record-breaking spikes of murder, carjacking and other violent crimes, Washington, D.C., the country focuses on portraying virtue signals and taxpayer money in black life issues,” said Arkansas GOP Sen. Tom Cotton.
“The failures in Washington, DC are a reminder of why cities never become nations,” he added.
