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The program, Capital Investment Grants, illustrates a subtler tactic in how the Trump administration is managing federal funds: not just terminating grants, as it did in droves last year, but quietly declining to give out new ones.

The Trump administration is sitting on more than $7 billion meant for big transit construction projects around the country: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...

On the strange direction where this is headed next, and the NCPC meeting today: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...

NCPC staff says the Height of Buildings Act *does* apply to Trump's arch -- but that he can still build it to 250 feet. He just has to make the arch itself shorter and the statue 40 feet taller...

I just loved working on this, and learning new things about D.C. as a resident: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Washington is full of these incredibly thoughtful details -- it's part of what makes the capital unlike any other city in America.

Or did you ever notice that Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans Memorial was designed to point directly at the Washington and Lincoln monuments?

Did you all realize that the National Mall is slightly crooked compared to the rest of D.C.'s L'Enfant street grid? The McMillan Commission did that!

Careful planning is Washington’s whole thing: symbolic sightlines; monuments that speak to one another; columns, rooflines and axes aligned just so. The whole city is supposed to be a work of civic art. Trump’s projects test this 235-year-old idea: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Tomorrow the Commission of Fine Arts will take another look at Trump's proposed arch, including renderings of it viewed from around the area. Here is its winged statue, peeping over the trees from the National Mall.

More detailed renderings now available for Trump's proposed arch: www.cfa.gov/system/files...

"'Pay no attention to the man in the corner’ is a little difficult to me when the man in the corner who is tweeting is the president," Chutkan says.

The East Wing demolition is now making it difficult for the government to argue in the Arch lawsuit that no injunction is needed because construction isn't imminent. Judge Chutkan just doesn’t believe it, when the president himself has said he wants the arch by July 4th.

Catching up on this thorough and thoughtful @philipkennicott.bsky.social piece on Trump's designs on the capital, until now a city of simple symmetry and unfussy architecture: www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

Great WaPo story here ahead of the meeting about how the White House got NCPC to water down a description of its own authority over the project: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The National Capital Planning Commission is scheduled to vote today to approve the president's ballroom. As of March, this is where the project stood. By this afternoon, it will jump to the "final" step. (NCPC is no longer showing this tracker on their website tho.)

NCPC has posted an addendum to the ballroom plans incorporating the removed stairs as the president showed Sunday night. No new renderings, detailed plans, dimensions, landscape. Just the images Trump showed. www.ncpc.gov/files/projec...

NCPC says they're still voting on the ballroom on Thursday, despite this ruling. Unclear tho, what plans they're voting on -- the ones they saw earlier this month, or the changed ones the president revealed on Air Force One on Sunday.

Federal judge rules construction must stop on the president's ballroom until Congress authorizes it: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We’re reading @birdyword.bsky.social fascinating “The Land Trap” for the next Reading The City book club at Solid State in DC, on April 1. If you’re one of those people who is *always* trying to talk about Henry George, this month's book is for you!