Republican congressman wants to dismantle Black Lives Matter Plaza

• Other examples include defunding the city's statehood commission and a proposal to regulate how transgender people use bathrooms in buildings owned by the D.C. government.

Driving the news: Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde says the massive yellow "Black Lives Matter" writing on the pavement over 16th Street should be scrubbed, per the Daily Caller.

• Using Congress' authority over D.C., Clyde says he wants to propose legislation that would dismantle the plaza.
• "The street needs to go back to the way it was," Clyde told the Daily Caller.

Context: Mayor Muriel Bowser created the mural in June 2020, a giant rebuke to then-President Trump.

• In fall 2021, the District spent $4.8 million making it a permanent installation stretching two blocks, along with a pedestrian-friendly redesign.

Between the lines: It's unclear whether the incoming Trump administration could unilaterally redesign the street, which the D.C. Department of Transportation's former director has referred to as a "critical federal highway route."

• Congressional action would be a more surefire way of getting it done.

"President Trump said that he planned on cleaning up the city. We're going to help him do that," Clyde told the outlet.

• The mayor's office did not immediately respond to questions about jurisdiction over the street.