On Friday, state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, criticized President Donald Trump’s plan to reopen Alcatraz Island as a prison after Trump requested $152 million in a 2027 federal budget request to cover first-year costs.
A news release issued by Wiener’s office said that the total cost of the project to reopen Alcatraz would be $2 billion.
“Trump’s idiotic quest to sink $2 billion into ruining a globally popular tourist attraction is the epitome of waste, fraud, and abuse,” Wiener said. “Trump’s dementia continues to get the best of him. Making Alcatraz a prison again isn’t a thing, and we’re not going to let him turn Alcatraz into his newest gulag. Back off.”
In 2025, Trump floated the idea of converting Alcatraz from a popular tourist destination in the middle of the Bay back into a prison.
Soon afterward, administration officials paid a surprise visit to Alcatraz, a move that many Bay Area political leaders, including Wiener, opposed.
U.S. Penitentiary Alcatraz closed in 1963 after opening 29 years earlier on the island in San Francisco Bay. Known as “The Rock,” it housed some of the most infamous criminals of its time, including Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly.
After its closure and a period of occupation by American Indians, Alcatraz has since turned into a tourist attraction with more than a million visitors a year to the public museum about the history of the island and its prison, according to the National Park Service.
For once I agree 100% with Senator Wiener.
Eww
Big time.
A democrat upset by spending? LOLOLOL
There will be plenty of funds available when the Medical and Train-to-Nowhere frauds are shut down.
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Democrats upset by spending? Yes – when it threatens criminals; one of their very most loved groups of people.
Sounds good to me, at least if there is a breakout the sharks eat and the communities won’t need to worry about their safety it’s a win win!!! As for Weiner he’s as usefull as DeSaulnier!
Haven’t been paying attention but “Trump’s dementia “?
What dementia!?! Didn’t hear you crying when Biden was claiming his butt’s been wiped live…
Well, it worked . . . . . . . . . . . . !
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democrats are all spun up, what a joy to behold.
Feral cats chasing the red dot, eh.
Aren’t we fortunate to have the Worlds Foremost Authority to share his vast knowledge of construction costs. If only he was around when those crooks devised that horrible scam to build the train to nowhere was hatched.
WAIT! ….. he was around…… hmmm, I wonder why he chose to remain suspiciously quiet then.
Conservative Patriot,
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Yet, 62% of California voters still say that they want high speed rail today. Fewer than 53% of voters passed the 2008 High-Speed Rail Bond Proposition. We’ve had 20 years of planning, building, delays, and cost overruns, and even more voters want this mess today.
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Even Congressman Mark DeSaulnier admits that California’s High Speed Rail Authority screwed things up by not using the existing right-of-way down I5 to build high speed rail instead of using eminent domain to acquire land to build transit villages all along the high speed rail line.
When it comes to trolling, I think Trump may even be better than Paul.
The criminal loving democrats idea of a prison is the San Quentin rehab and resort center project, not a hard place where one must pay for their crimes.
wiener is a creep and has sugar in his tank
” “Trump’s idiotic quest to sink $2 billion into ruining a globally popular tourist attraction is the epitome of waste, fraud, and abuse,” Wiener said.”
Hey Hot Dog, I doubt it has ever turned a profit for the government.
Wow, you don’t want your Wiener just unloading anywhere..
I toured Alcatraz as a kid in the 1970s and was instantly nauseated and chilled once we got inside.
If it opens back up as a prison there will be some entities to deal with.
A very dark place.
Good the people that would be residing there can enjoy all that it has to offer. Not really caring about criminals and them being held accountable for their actions
So President Trump requested $152 million, and creepy scott said it was a quest to sink $2 billion. OK.
I wonder if this will lead to discussions about how many prisons have been closed in CA.. Good way to get people a talkin’
We need to open back up those prisons because there sure hasn’t been a reduction in crime or criminals! Don’t care about how great or prime the real estate is in San Quentin keep that filth locked up and far away from society!!!
newsom took it upon himself to, ORDER gas chamber scrapped.
Maybe we need to open up a few rooms over at the Q. You know, the old fashioned way, actually use the death penalty instead of empty threats
Trump 5D Chessmaster!!! Yess!!! Commiecrats to stupid to realize anything Bwhahahahhhhhh!!!!