Top Senate Democrat calls on FAA to reject White House arch approval pressure

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Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) urged the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Thursday to reject the White House’s plans to erect a triumphal arch near the Lincoln Memorial.

The ranking member of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Aviation called the arch President Trump’s "newest vanity project” in her letter to the federal agency and expressed concerns that it...