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The bill removes a Confederate-linked statue from an outdoor federal site and makes it available for indoor preservation and interpretation—reducing local tensions and supporting education—while shifting removal costs and administrative burdens to the federal government and constraining outdoor display options for recipient museums.
Local communities and visitors: the statue will be removed from an outdoor federal space and placed indoors, which should reduce public-safety tensions and community offense near Judiciary Square.
Nonprofits, schools, and universities: the statue will be accessible indoors where it can be preserved and interpreted for historical context, supporting educational programming and research.
Taxpayers and federal employees: the federal government will bear the cost and administrative burden of removing and transferring the statue.
Recipient museums and nonprofits: receiving institutions may lose flexibility to display the statue outdoors, limiting exhibition and outdoor programming options.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Directs the Interior Secretary to remove the Albert Pike statue near Judiciary Square and allows donation only to indoor-preservation entities that may not display it outdoors.
Introduced August 8, 2025 by Eleanor Holmes Norton · Last progress August 8, 2025
Requires the Secretary of the Interior (through the National Park Service Director) to remove the Albert Pike statue that stands near Judiciary Square. The Secretary may donate the statue to a museum or similar indoor preservation entity, but any recipient is prohibited from storing, displaying, or exhibiting the statue outdoors; if the statue is kept or shown outdoors, ownership reverts to the federal government.