2026-09-03T22:45:40.257Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
美国内政部长道格·伯根周四宣布，特朗普政府计划在未来两周内为总统的“凯旋门”项目举行动工仪式。
“我们很高兴地宣布，经过长达125年以上的漫长等待，我们准备在未来两周内启动大凯旋门必要的开挖工程，”伯根在X平台上写道。
批评人士指出，尽管有未决诉讼试图叫停该项目、该项目需要国会批准、尚未获得华盛顿特区规划委员会的绿灯，且美国联邦航空管理局（FAA）对其飞行潜在影响的审查仍未完成，但该项目仍在推进。
唐纳德·特朗普总统任内屡见不鲜的模式——不顾反对、跳过正常流程，在华盛顿特区推进各类“美化”项目——再次引发了强烈抗议。
“他们在完成所有必要法律程序之前就推进该项目，这一行为极其恶劣，”国家公园保护协会的埃德·斯蒂尔利告诉CNN。
代表北弗吉尼亚选区（包括阿灵顿国家公墓）的民主党众议员唐·贝耶尔表示：“这个项目远未到可以正式启动的阶段。”该选区位于波托马克河对岸，也就是凯旋门的拟建地点。
他补充道，“未经国会授权就开始开挖，显然是违法的。”
代表诉讼原告方的非营利组织公共公民的律师尼古拉斯·桑索内表示，他们将尽快采取应对措施。
“我们实在困惑，政府到底认为自己拥有何种法律权限，可以启动这座拱门的实地施工，”桑索内告诉CNN。
起诉方包括多名退伍军人，他们称这座拱门会破坏从林肯纪念堂到阿灵顿公墓以及罗伯特·E·李纪念馆阿灵顿宅邸的视线通道。
美国内政部未立即回应CNN的置评请求，包括计划开挖的范围。
特朗普辩称他不需要国会批准，本届政府援引1925年国会授权在凯旋门拟建地点附近建造立柱的计划，辩称该项目无需进一步的立法监督。但这些立柱从未被建造过。
美国司法部已要求驳回针对该拱门项目的诉讼。在周四的法庭文件中，司法部援引了最高法院最近一项允许另一项特朗普项目——东翼宴会厅——继续施工的裁决。
在这项以5票赞成、4票反对的裁决中，保守派大法官表示，法院无法叫停宴会厅施工，因为法律挑战者未能证明他们受到了足以要求法官介入的损害。
司法部在拱门案中同样表示：“原告不能基于想要观赏阿灵顿宅邸或林肯纪念堂的意愿，确立起诉资格。”
国家首都规划委员会——负责审查和批准华盛顿特区政府物业重大变更的两大关键联邦机构之一——仅对该项目给予了初步批准。该委员会最早可在10月1日，即其下一次月度会议上给出最终批准。
但在此之前，必须完成对该拱门对历史和文化遗址影响的评估，即《国家历史保护法》规定的关键要求的第106条审查。
美国联邦航空管理局也在继续对该拱门项目进行审查。该拱门的选址距离华盛顿里根国家机场的一条跑道不到两英里，该机场是美国最繁忙的机场之一。
FAA的初步研究确定，该拱门不会对航空旅行构成风险，但建议在拱门上加装红色障碍灯。
FAA规定，高度超过200英尺且可能干扰空域的建筑物必须接受审查。
Trump administration plows ahead with groundbreaking for the president’s ‘triumphal arch’
2026-09-03T22:45:40.257Z / CNN
The Trump administration plans to break ground on the president’s “triumphal arch” in the next two weeks, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced on Thursday.
“We are pleased to announce that after a very long wait (over 125 years!), we are preparing to start, over the next two-week period, the excavation work necessary for the Great Triumphal Arch,” Burgum wrote on X.
The project is moving forward even though a pending lawsuit aims to stop it, critics say it needs congressional approval, it hasn’t gotten the greenlight from a DC planning commission, and an FAA review of potential impact on flights hasn’t been completed.
The familiar pattern under President Donald Trump – who has plowed ahead with various “beautification” projects in the nation’s capital despite opposition and without going through normal processes – has again prompted an outcry.
“The fact that they’re moving forward on this before any of the legal steps required is egregious,” Ed Stierli, of National Parks Conservation Association told CNN.
Democratic Rep. Don Beyer, who represents a Northern Virginia district that includes Arlington National Cemetery, the historic grounds across the Potomac River from where the arch would be built, said: “This project is not even close to being ready for prime time.”
Plans to begin excavation are “plainly illegal without congressional authorization,” he added.
Nicolas Sansone, an attorney at the nonprofit Public Citizen, which is representing plaintiffs in the lawsuit, says it will act as quickly as possible to respond.
“We’re frankly befuddled as to what sorts of legal authority the government believes that has to begin on the ground construction of the arch,” Sansone told CNN.
Among the individuals suing are veterans who say the arch would disrupt the sightline from the Lincoln Memorial to the Arlington cemetery and Arlington House, the Robert E. Lee memorial.
The Department of Interior did not immediately respond to CNN’s questions, including the extent of the planned excavation.
Trump has argued that he does not need congressional approval, and the administration has cited a 1925 plan authorized by Congress to build columns close to the proposed arch site to contend that it doesn’t need further legislative oversight. Those columns were never built.
The Justice Department has asked that the arch lawsuit be rejected. In a Thursday court filing, the DOJ pointed to a recent ruling from the Supreme Court that allowed construction of the East Wing Ballroom, another Trump project, to continue.
In the 5-4 decision, the conservative justices said that courts couldn’t block ballroom construction because the legal challengers had failed to show they were being harmed in a way that would call for the judges to intervene.
Similarly, DOJ said in the arch case: “Plaintiffs cannot establish standing based on desires to view Arlington House or the Lincoln Memorial.”
The National Capital Planning Commission – one of two key federal agencies that reviews and approves major changes on government property in Washington, DC — has only given preliminary approval for the project. The earliest it could give its final approval would be October 1, the date of the commission’s next monthly meeting.
But first, an assessment of how the arch impacts historic and cultural sites – known as a Section 106 review, a key requirement under the National Historic Preservation Act – must be completed.
The Federal Aviation Authority also continues its own review of the arch, which would sit less than two miles from a runway at Washington’s Reagan National Airport, one of the busiest in the country.
A preliminary study done by the FAA determined that the arch would pose no risk to air travel but recommended that red obstruction lights be added to the arch.
FAA regulations require structures that exceed 200 feet and are in a place where they could interfere with airspace to be subject to a review.
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