Trump seeking ways to take over 9/11 memorial in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) – President Donald Trump said on Friday, the Federal government in New York in New York monument and the control of the museum, he said investigating.
The site in the Lower Manhattan, where the World Trade Center was destroyed by Jetliners, where the twin towers were kidnapped September 11, 2001There are two monoles and two commemoration pools floating with the names of waterfalls and the names of the dead and the underground museum. Since its opening to the public in 2014, Memorial Plaza and its museum have been ruled by a Public Charity Institution, headed by Michael Bloomberg, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The White House confirmed that the administration had “pre -discovery debates ve about the idea, but rejected it in detail. Office recorded the Republican Promised during the campaign Last year, to make the site a national monument protected and protected by the federal government.
However, the officials at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum say that the Federal Government cannot handle the site in the land owned by the New York and New Jersey Port Authority in accordance with the current laws.
Given Trump’s efforts, the US government shoulder costs and the management of the site “does not mean” Back to dramatic way Federal bureaucracy, President and CEO of the organization Beth Hillman.
The organization has collected a special funds of 750 million dollars and welcomed approximately 90 million visitors since its opening. “We are proud of our exhibitions to tell the stories of courage and patriotism and we are confident that our existing operating model serves the public with honor and effectively”.
Last year, the museum earned more than $ 93 million and spent about 84 million dollars on operating costs and left the museum officials and depreciation more than $ 9 million. Latest Tax Files.
Meanwhile, the New York government Kathy Hochul expressed his concerns about a federal inheritance, and said the Trump administration’s efforts to influence how the American history was described through national monuments and museums. Including Smithsonian.
The idea of taking over, only months after the Trump administration Cut a short time in a federal program, but it was restored later This provides health benefits to people with diseases that may be linked to toxic dust from the destroyed World Trade Center.
Hochul said in a statement, “The 9/11 monument belongs to New York people – families, survivors and the first intervention teams that carry this heritage for more than twenty years, and never forget us,” he said. “Before involved in this sacred site, the president should start by honoring the survivors and supporting the sacrificial families.”
Anthoula Katsimatides, a museum board member who lost his brother John in the attack, said he did not see any reason to change property.
“They do an amazing job that tells the story of that day without a confectionery,” he said. “Very well worked, I don’t understand why it should be a change. I don’t see what it will benefit.”
However, the monument and museum has been the target of criticism from some members of the great community of 9/11 sacrificial families who criticized ticket prices or calling for changes in the make -up of the museum exhibitions.
Trump spokesman refused to answer the comments.
In total, approximately 3,000 people were killed when the pirates hit Jetliners in the World Trade Center, Pentagon and a field in Southwest Pennsylvania. On September 11 attacks. More than 2,700 of these victims died of the fiery collapse of the twin towers of the Trade Center.
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