News Wrap: Trump administration taking over management of D.C.’s Union Station
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | The day's other headlines begin in Washington, D.C., where the Trump administration is taking over management of the city's main rail hub, Union Station. |
| 0:09.0 | It's the latest effort to put the capital city further under federal control. |
| 0:13.1 | To be clear, the government already owns the facility, but it had been managed by Amtrak. |
| 0:18.4 | Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the federal takeover at a |
| 0:21.7 | launch event for Amtrak's new Acella high-speed train. Duffy called the iconic train station |
| 0:27.6 | a point of pride for the city that had, quote, fallen into disrepair. |
| 0:31.5 | We are going to make the investments to make sure that this station isn't dirty, that we don't |
| 0:37.3 | have homelessness. |
| 0:38.3 | We're going to take Union Station back under DOT control. |
| 0:41.3 | Not a power play. We've always had it. |
| 0:43.3 | But we think that we can manage the property better. |
| 0:48.3 | In a separate event today, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said increased federal involvement in the district has helped, |
| 0:55.4 | particularly to reduce violent crime and auto theft. But she disagreed with some of their methods. |
| 1:01.3 | We know having masked ICE agents in the community has not worked. And national guards from other states |
| 1:10.6 | has not been an efficient use of those resources. |
| 1:15.5 | Meanwhile, federal prosecutors have reportedly failed to indict a man who threw a sandwich at a |
| 1:21.2 | federal agent in Washington earlier this month. Video of the episode went viral on social media |
| 1:26.9 | and became a flashpoint in the D.C. federal |
| 1:29.3 | crackdown. The Associated Press and other outlets are reporting that a grand jury rejected the |
| 1:34.7 | felony charge against Sean Charles Dunn. It's unclear if prosecutors will plan to try again. |
| 1:41.2 | The head of the CDC, Susan Menares, has left the agency just weeks after taking |
| 1:45.9 | the role. That's according to the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC. |
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