A coalition of elected officials and Bay Area military veterans is urging President Donald Trump’s administration to reverse its decision to kill a decade-old plan to build a veterans health clinic in Alameda.

Standing on the steps of the city’s Veterans Memorial building Monday morning, the mayors of Oakland and Alameda, representatives from local and congressional lawmakers’ offices and more than a dozen veterans called on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to reinstate the $395 million that it axed from the project.

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.