WASHINGTON — Workers began to remove the last of the high-security fence around the U.S. Capitol on Friday, more than six months after former President Donald Trump’s supporters launched a deadly assault on the home of the U.S. Congress.
The eight-foot-high (2.4-m) black mesh fencing at one point surrounded several blocks of Capitol Hill, interfering with pedestrian and vehicle traffic. The remaining sections, enclosing just the white-domed Capitol complex, will take about three days to remove, according to U.S. House of Representatives Sergeant-at-Arms William Walker.
The decision to take down the remaining fence was based on the U.S. Capitol Pol…
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