The Obama administration is thwarting the effort to bring the Washington Redskins back to the District, informing the D.C. mayor that unless the team changes its racially insensitive name, it will not accommodate the building of a new stadium.

In a meeting this spring with D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said that the National Park Service would likely not accommodate the new plans with the land it owns beneath Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium. "Her decision not to extend the District’s lease of the RFK land badly hinders Bowser’s bid to return the Redskins to D.C. — and boosts efforts to lure the team across the Potomac to Northern Virginia," The Washington Post explains.

Jewell is particularly attuned to the Redskins controversy because, in addition to managing the parks, she oversees America’s trust and treaty relationships with Native American tribes. The Interior Secretary has been highly critical of the Redskins organization, as has been President Obama, repeatedly blasting it for using a name that is a "relic of the past" and insulting.

Speaking to ABC News last year, Jewell expressed her personal opinion of the name. "Personally, I think we would never consider naming a team the 'Blackskins' or the 'Brownskins' or the 'Whiteskins.' So, personally, I find it surprising that in this day and age, the name is not different." In the potentially thwarted stadium proposal, that personal objection has political and economic ramifications.