The Washington Post:

On Tuesday afternoon, the Trump administration announced that 443 federally owned properties were eligible to be sold, including such iconic buildings as the D.C. headquarters of the Justice Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

But there was a problem: Many of the agencies affected were unaware that their buildings were going to be on the list because their directors had not been consulted, according to a General Services Administration employee briefed on internal deliberations, including a Wednesday meeting of top officials at the agency that oversees federal real estate.

The list was later pared down to exclude most D.C.-area buildings, then completely removed overnight, with the GSA webpage where it previously had been displayed featuring a new comment saying that the list will be “coming soon.”

A warning sign for democracy in the United States.