AFPI Releases New Report on the White House

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) has released a new expert insight, “Hardening the People’s House: The National Security Case for White House Modernization.”

This report details the infrastructural updates that are sorely needed in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC), which has not been significantly renovated since its construction in 1942. The PEOC communications failed during our nation’s worst domestic emergency, September 11, 2001, and still remains to be fully updated over two decades later.

“The increasing threats against the president and public officials should concern every American, regardless of politics,” said Brett Tolman, chair for American Justice at AFPI. “Strengthening secure infrastructure on White House grounds is a necessary step to protect the administration, heads of state, staff, law enforcement, media, and civilians attending official events now and for generations to come.”

Toplines from the report are available here, and the full report is available here.