A senior White House official said President Trump on Friday Request to reopen Alkatraz The tag of the reported $ 2 billion looks “excessive”.
The figure “seems excessive, but eventually dependent on the President to decide,” the officer told the news of the news, the sister of Hill.
Attorney General Palm Bondi and Internal Secretary Dag Bergam Visited island It is on the campus in San Francisco Bay on Thursday to evaluate the position of the former maximum security jail, which was closed in 1963.
“We are still in the early stages,” a administration official told Exios.
“We need a lot of study, much more uniqueness, before the President’s decision,” he said. “But $ 2 billion can be too much money for him.”
The Trump administration has not confirmed the cost of the project.
Axis Informed on Friday The President is assessing that $ 2 billion should be inserted in complete renovation of the site, investing $ 1 billion in partial reconstruction efforts that would not occupy the entire island or allow private contractors to bid the project.
Later measures were used to secure Delani hall detention center In New Jersey for federal immigration operation. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Shelter and Services Program also recently funded for the inauguration of the “Elegator Alkatraz” Pravadh Center at Florida Everglade.
The White House and the Internal Department did not immediately respond to the request of the hill to comment on possible developments in California Jail, managed by the National Park Service.
The Department of Justice pointed to the hills online after visiting the prison to the prison.
“In @Potus‘America, Law and Order will be fully implemented, and Alkatraz’s visit with today @Agpambondi Dangerous criminals are marked a powerful step towards ensuring that they are held accountable and stay safe, “internal secretary Written on social platform xWhile sharing photos from the journey. Bondi Posted A similar message.
Trump announced in May that he directed the administration to start work to reopen the jail, which the Bureau of Jail (BOP) stated that was closed due to high cost.
Trump wrote, “Rebuilding Alkatraz, and open! True social Those days.
He said, “When we were a more serious nation, in the past, we did not hesitate to stop the most dangerous criminals, and keep them away from anyone that they could harm,” he said. “This is the way it should be.”
Is the initiative Some backlash took offMainly from the Democrats, including the former speaker Nancy Palosi (D-Calif), which represents San Francisco.
“With rigorous competition, a planned announcement to reopen Alkatraz as a federal peninsula is the stupid initiative of the Trump administration,” Pelosi It is written in a statement“It should be worried about all of us that clearly intellectual resource administration has drawn to this foolish perception. Decades old are imaginary Hollywood movies.”
She kept saying, “It remains to be seen how this administration can probably spend billions to convert and maintain Alkatraz into a gel when they are already adding trillions of dollars to national debt with their sinful law, a reference to” newly signed “Big, Beautiful Bill”.
The former Democratic leader said, “This should not be the reason and the Republican brings this non -equal to the Congress, the Democrats will use every parliamentary and budgetary strategy.”
