Trump is quietly engineering a comeback for his DC hotel — on the cheap (opens in new tab)

Timothy Noah, writing for The New Republic, explained that one of President Donald Trump's crusades over the past year is selling tons of government buildings and assets, and they're doing it at remarkably low prices. Noah noted that it's not entirely smart since the commercial office space world has been shrinking. The pandemic showed corporations that they can achieve the same without much overhead of an office building. The fire-sale is "making the GSA look very foolish as it claims thrift...