'All-out assault': Trump proposes largest cuts in National Park Service history, 40% funding cut and some of its land

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'All-out assault': Trump proposes largest cuts in National Park Service history
The park service would lose almost 40% of its funding, and some of its land, under Trump's dream budget

The National Park Service would lose more than $1.2 billion in funding, plus ownership of some of its smaller park units, under the Trump administration’s proposed budget, released Friday morning.

The Trump administration wants to reduce federal spending on national park operations by almost 40% as part of his broader agenda to shrink the size of the federal government across most agencies and departments, with notable exceptions for the Defense and Transportation departments.

“This is the most extreme, unrealistic and destructive National Park Service budget a President has ever proposed in the agency’s 109-year history,” Theresa Pierno, the National Park Conservation Association’s president and CEO, said in a statement. “It’s nothing less than an all-out assault on America’s national parks.”

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If enacted, the cuts would be the largest in National Park Service history, according to the National Park Conservation Association, a nonprofit that advocates for national parks. It’s also the first time a president has proposed turning over park sites to states and removing them from the national park system, something that would likely require an act of Congress to accomplish.

https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/largest-budget-cuts-in-national-park-history-20307194.php

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1. Effing ignorant basrard!

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2. Evil greed heads allow Trump to be POTUS.

The public commons and public interests are under assault.

The tactic is to flood the zone and take away what cannot be recovered.

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3. He's doing the same with HUD's rental assistance and homeless shelters

and turn the Section 8 program into block grants that the states oversee.

NPR says that is probably too much for repubs to accept because of the devastating it would have on communities everywhere, but you know they'll reduce funding significantly.