Feds signal plan to rename Penn Station potentially after Trump
- The Trump administration is signaling its intention to rename New York’s Penn Station, potentially after the president.
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy outlined “administration priorities” for the Manhattan transit hub, which is slated for an $8 billion federal makeover.
- Duffy’s letter to Congress directs Amtrak to rename New York Penn Station, and he previously suggested “Trump Station” as a possibility.
- Reports indicate the president has employed various tactics to rename the station after himself, including linking federal funding for a rail project to the renaming, though he dismissed some reports as “fake news.”
- Other institutions, such as the U.S. Institute of Peace and Palm Beach International Airport, have already been rebranded after the president during his second term.
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