Clock tower at Trump hotel kept staffed with federal park rangers despite government shutdown
'At the very least, this smells funny'
Zamira Rahim @ZamiraRahim 3 days ago
As employees have been left unpaid and national parks forced to struggle with piles of accumulated waste by the partial US government shutdown, National Park Service rangers have continued to work at the Old Post Office Pavilion Clock Tower at the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC.
The attraction remains open and staffed, and visitors are still able to ride to the top of the 315-foot-high, nearly 120-year-old clock tower, an attraction housed within the federally owned building that is leased to the Trump Organisation.
Amanda Osborn, a spokeswoman for the General Services Administration, which owns the building, said that the shutdown exemption for the clock tower was “unrelated to the facility’s tenant”.
The agency said that the law that put it in charge of the site obligates it to keep the attraction open, even as federal Washington closes around it. Yet the sight of staffers working at the clock tower is sure to raise eyebrows, as the effects of the shutdown begin to be felt across the US.
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