This Is Trump’s Plan To Sell National Parks

Wes Siler: While budgets are written by Congress, not the President, it still provides a detailed look inside the executive branch’s plans and priorities. This one would effectively eliminate public lands funding provided by the Great American Outdoors Act, cut a further 5,518 full-time national park employees, reduce the budget for seasonal staff by half, and bring massive budget cuts to national monuments.

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