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What cutting down a couple trees tells us about D.C. statehood

So, as you may have heard, President Trump has decided to destroy the East Wing of the White House to build some kind of Bribery Ballroom (name pending, but actually not because it’s going to be called the Trump Ballroom because of course it is). He also, you may not have noticed, cut down a few heritage trees for the same reason. If this were just a normal building somewhere else, owned by a real property owner, this would have been illegal. Mostly due to lack of permits, environmental protection (or lack of report of environmental impacts),...

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