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President Donald Trump’s administration has been accused of destroying documents related to his many renovations in Washington, D.C.
Trump is rushing to finish his pet projects — including the creation of a 250-foot triumphal arch at the end of Arlington Memorial Bridge and an overhaul of the East Potomac Golf Links — before his term is up in two years.
As Trump looks to stamp his legacy into the nation’s capital, concerns have been raised about whether he is getting proper approval for the projects.
In recent weeks, multiple credible whistleblowers have approached the Natural Resources Committee, claiming the Interior Department is destroying documents in anticipation of scrutiny, congressional sources told CNN.

Three Interior Department staffers told Politico in August that officials have repeatedly shredded documents and used disappearing messages on Signal to avoid the legally required preservation of communications.
“They’re terrified of written records,” one ex-official told the publication.
White House spokesman Davis Ingle told The Independent, “The White House expects the entire administration and all agencies to abide by federal record retention rules,” adding that “any allegations without evidence is speculative and irresponsible reporting.”
An Interior Department spokesperson has also denied mishandling documents, calling the whistleblower claims “100% false.”
“The Department follows all federal records management obligations as directed by the Department’s ethics officials,” the spokesperson told The Independent.

Democratic Congressman Jared Huffman of California — who is the ranking member of the Natural Resources Committee that oversees the federal land Trump wants to build his projects on — announced Tuesday that he sent letters to federal agencies, including the Interior Department, and private companies ordering them to preserve documents and other records.
“For two years, this administration has stonewalled us and kept the American people in the dark while Democrats have fought tirelessly to bring to light and stop their corruption. Those days of obstruction are over,” Huffman said in a press release announcing that he was putting the Trump administration “on notice.”
“I am sending a message to President Trump and his allies: our investigations will continue full steam ahead. And to every agency official and corporate executive receiving these letters: save everything. The American people deserve to know what you did with their government and their money, and we intend to get them answers.”
Huffman said he hopes to save “evidence” his committee gathered or sought during its investigations of the Trump administration so the probes can continue in the new Congress.
Democrats will take control of the House and the Senate in January following a massive GOP shellacking in last week’s midterm elections. The party has made clear they plan to hold the Trump administration accountable for the wrongs they believe were committed during the first two years of his term.
