In 2017, the building lost over $25 million after the $1.2 billion senior mortgage's interest rate increased from 5.5% to 6.353%. Cash flow from the building's rents were only enough to cover about half of required interest payments, down from roughly two thirds the year before. At the end of 2017, several Democratic lawmakers including Ted Lieu of California, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, and Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania sent a letter to Kushner Companies inquiring whether the company sought money from foreign governments to refinance the property.