The federal government is taking over D.C.'s Union Station. What does that mean?

Rachel Treisman

August 28, 2025 / 11:29 am

As the Trump administration moves to take more control over the management of Washington, D.C., it is setting its sights on Union Station — a major transportation hub and national landmark that it already owns.

The Department of Transportation (DOT) announced Wednesday that it will reclaim management of the station, with changes expected to be formalized in September.

DOT has owned the building since the 1980s. But it had long outsourced the management of its daily operations and commercial aspects to a local nonprofit, the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation. Amtrak took over those responsibilities last summer — and it was at the launch of its new Acel

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