发布时间：2026年3月14日，美国东部时间下午3:22 | CNN政治
联邦法官裁定，在周一就总统计划进行投票之前，与唐纳德·特朗普总统试图关闭并大规模翻新肯尼迪中心相关的一系列文件必须移交给该中心董事会的一名民主党女议员。
美国地区法官克里斯托弗·库珀（Christopher Cooper）在周六的一份长篇裁决中表示，俄亥俄州众议员乔伊斯·比蒂（Joyce Beatty）有权获取这些信息，以便她能够有意义地参与即将举行的白宫会议。在这次会议上，这座著名的表演艺术中心预计将批准特朗普的计划——特朗普去年已任命自己为该中心主席。
库珀写道：“这个具有重大意义和规模的项目——它可能涉及至少部分拆除和重建一个主要国家纪念建筑和活跃的表演艺术剧院——不会一蹴而就。”“如果确实已经咨询了许多外部顾问和董事会成员，融资已确定，并且已经做出的决定正在现场执行，那么必须向包括比蒂在内的全体董事会成员分享一些具体信息。”
特朗普政府的律师曾辩称，翻新计划是“初步的”，尚未“最终确定”，暗示总统将在最后一刻参与细节的微调。
库珀称这一论点“近乎荒谬”。
比蒂是肯尼迪中心董事会的当然成员（ex-officio member），她正在质疑特朗普关闭该建筑计划的合法性。她还请求库珀干预，确保她在周一的会议上有权投票，声称董事会去年修改规则，禁止当然成员投票的行为是非法的，因此必须被阻止。
尽管库珀同意该规则变更“可能无效”，但他并未下令允许比蒂下周投票，称她未能证明在规则变更发生数月后对其合法性提出质疑为何现在需要他的干预。
他写道：“不投票对她造成的边际损害要小得多，因为她可以有记录地提出反对意见，并有可能说服同事接受她的立场。”
比蒂对特朗普和其他被任命的董事会成员提起了一项包含两个诉求的诉讼，周六的裁决涉及即将举行的董事会会议的紧急关切。
“没有任何总统有权将国会排除在肯尼迪中心的治理之外，更不用说单方面重新命名或拆除它了。我们不会坐视我们国家遗产的重要组成部分受到威胁，我打算在下周的董事会会议上明确表达这一点，”她在法官裁决后的一份声明中表示。
这位女议员还要求法官在获得国会批准前暂停该中心的关闭计划。
特朗普上月宣布的翻新工程是他最新一次试图彻底改造该中心，并在首都文化中留下自己印记的努力。他改组了董事会，安插了忠诚者，这些人选举他为董事长，并在12月投票将该场馆更名为“特朗普肯尼迪中心”——这一举措也受到了比蒂的法庭挑战。
但这些变更也导致门票销售下滑，演出数量减少，因为知名艺术家取消了演出——一些人认为这加剧了暂时关闭的动机。
多位消息人士告诉CNN，在总统对有关他对艺术机构改造的一系列负面头条感到不满后，特朗普于周五下午宣布，长期盟友、现任中心总裁理查德·格伦内尔（Richard Grenell）将由现任设施运营副总裁马特·弗洛克（Matt Floca）取代。
特朗普还发布了两张他所说的“新的、大幅改进的”建筑效果图，这两项行动都表明，尽管存在全球冲突，该项目仍在他的优先事项之列。
比蒂的诉讼包括表演艺术中心管理专家的宣誓声明，这些专家警告称，如果特朗普所说的将于7月开始的两年关闭付诸实施，将对预订、捐赠者和员工造成重大影响。
纽约爱乐乐团名誉主席黛博拉·博尔达（Deborah Borda）曾负责洛杉矶华特迪士尼音乐厅和纽约大卫·格芬音乐厅等多个主要场馆的大规模翻修和建设。
博尔达在宣誓声明中表示：“以我的专业判断，按照宣布的规模和时间表关闭肯尼迪中心造成的损害是严重的、即时的，且无法迅速逆转。”
她补充说：“被从日程中剔除的来访表演者会找到替代场馆，且不会很快回来。离职的员工将难以替代。重新分配捐款的捐赠者将建立新的机构忠诚度。不再养成出席习惯的观众将……需要数年的努力和投入才能恢复。”
肯尼迪中心前舞蹈项目助理经理马洛里·米勒（Mallory Miller）描述了她的前团队多年来努力与芭蕾舞团建立的关系。
她说，这些关系“不是抽象的概念。它们是由经验丰富的艺术管理人员多年来发展起来的，这些管理人员了解这些公司的艺术需求，赢得了其导演和经理的信任，并能可靠地代表肯尼迪中心作为长期忠实合作伙伴。”
米勒警告称，关闭“将切断剩余的善意，并且这些公司可能会将其理解为彻底的破裂，而非暂时的暂停。”
Trump administration must provide Kennedy Center renovation plans to board members before key closure vote, judge rules
Published Mar 14, 2026, 3:22 PM ET | CNN Politics
A slew of documents related to President Donald Trump’s efforts to close and extensively renovate the Kennedy Center must be turned over to a Democratic congresswoman who sits on the center’s board ahead of a Monday vote on the president’s plan, a federal judge has ruled.
US District Judge Christopher Cooper said in a lengthy decision Saturday that Ohio Rep. Joyce Beatty has a right to the information so she can meaningfully participate in the upcoming White House meeting, during which the storied performing arts center is poised to approve the plan by Trump, who last year installed himself as its chair.
“A project of this salience and magnitude — which threatens to involve at least some demolition and reconstruction of a major national memorial and active performing arts theater — does not happen overnight,” Cooper wrote. “If it is the case that many external advisors and Board members have been consulted, the financing is set, and already-made decisions are currently being implemented on-site, there must be some concrete information to share with the full Board, including Beatty.”
Trump administration lawyers had argued that the renovation plans were “preliminary” and not “finalized,” suggesting that the president would be involved in fine-tuning details for the closure until the last minute.
Cooper said that argument “borders on preposterous.”
Beatty, an ex-officio member of the Kennedy Center’s board, is challenging the legality of Trump’s plan to temporarily close the building. She had also asked Cooper to intervene to ensure she had a right to vote during Monday’s meeting, contending that the board’s decision to change its rules last year to prohibit ex-officio members from casting a vote was unlawful and therefore must be blocked.
Though Cooper agreed that the rule change “is likely void,” he stopped short of also ordering officials to permit Beatty to cast a vote next week, saying she had not shown how her challenge to that change months after it occurred warranted his intervention now.
“The marginal harm to her from not voting is much less, as she will be able to lodge her objections on the record and have the opportunity to persuade her colleagues of her position,” he wrote.
Beatty had filed a two-pronged lawsuit against Trump and other appointed members of the board, and Saturday’s ruling addresses the immediate concern of the upcoming board meeting.
“No president has the authority to shut Congress out of the governance of the Kennedy Center, much less unilaterally rename or demolish it. We will not stand by while an important part of our national heritage is jeopardized, and I intend to make that clear at next week’s board meeting,” she said in a statement moments after the judge’s ruling.
The congresswoman has also asked the judge to halt the center’s planned closure until it receives congressional approval.
The renovations announced by Trump last month mark his latest effort to overhaul the center and place his mark on culture in the nation’s capital. He gutted the board and installed loyalists who elected him chair and voted in December to rename the venue the “Trump Kennedy Center” — a move Beatty is challenging in court.
But the changes have also led to slumping ticket sales and a dwindling number of performances as prominent artists have canceled their appearances — which some saw as driving the desire to temporarily close.
Ahead of the Monday White House meeting, Trump announced that Richard Grenell, a longtime ally who has been serving as the center’s president, would be replaced by Matt Floca, its current vice president of facilities operations, after the president became frustrated with a slew of negative headlines about his revamp of the arts institution, multiple sources told CNN.
Trump also posted a pair of renderings of what he said the “new, highly improved” building will look like on Friday afternoon, both actions making clear that the project is still top of mind despite global conflicts.
Beatty’s lawsuit includes sworn declarations from experts in performing arts center management who warn about significant impacts to bookings, donors and staff should the two-year closure, which Trump says will start in July, take effect.
Deborah Borda, the president emerita of the New York Philharmonic, oversaw major renovations and construction at multiple major venues, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and David Geffen Hall in New York City.
“In my professional judgment, the harms from a closure of the Kennedy Center at the scale and on the timeline announced are severe, immediate, and cannot be quickly reversed,” Borda said in a sworn declaration.
She added: “The visiting performers who are removed from the schedule will find alternative venues and will not return quickly. The staff who depart will be difficult to replace. The donors who redirect their giving will develop new institutional loyalties. The audiences who fall out of the habit of attending will … require years of effort and investment to recover.”
And Mallory Miller, the Kennedy Center’s former assistant manager of dance programming, described the long-cultivated relationships her former team has worked to manage with ballet companies.
Those relationships, she said, “are not abstractions. They are relationships developed over many years by experienced arts administrators who understood those companies’ artistic needs, earned the trust of their directors and managers, and could credibly represent the Kennedy Center as a committed long-term partner.”
Miller warned that the closure “will sever whatever goodwill remains and will likely be understood by those companies as a definitive rupture, not a temporary pause.”