Democratic Nevada representative Dina Titus recently discussed her push to diversify the architecture of federal government buildings in a podcast interview with the Federal News Network. In it, she says,"[T]hats something that dictators do, make everything look alike and in their image" referring to the new Trump Administrations executive order that ostensibly swaps modern and contemporary styles for a pastiche of new classically-inspired designs. Her billH.R. 964, or the 'Democracy in Design Act'apparently has bipartisan support and was first introduced back in 2023.The language of the bill is in line with Daniel Patrick Moynihan's1962Guiding Principles for Federal Architecturememothat calls for the elimination of all "official" styles as part of theGSA's Design Excellence Program.