After demolishing the White House's East Wing, President Donald Trump is now eying four federal buildings for the same treatment and is circumventing a key government agency with his plans, according to a historic preservationist raising the alarm.

Mydelle "Mina" Wright, a former senior official at the General Services Administration, wrote in a sworn court declaration this week that the White House is "acting on its own and not through the GSA," which oversees government property, to solicit bids "to analyze and recommend for demolition four historic federal buildings in DC." The administration, though, asserted in a court filing that the government was contemplating transferring ownership of the buildings, not destroying them.