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Calif. congressman: Trump admin wants to monetize, privatize national parks

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U.S. Rep. Jared Huffman, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Natural Resources, laid into President Donald Trump in a recent podcast appearance, criticizing his administration’s turbulent management of federal lands, downsizing of staff at national parks and weakening of the Endangered Species Act, among other executive actions.

“I think it’s chaos, in a nutshell,” Huffman said of the Trump administration’s endgame on the National Parks Traveler podcast. “It’s the same thing that we see across the board. From their economic policy to their social policy to their foreign policy, chaos is the point. Chaos is the feature. And it is, frankly, how authoritarians divide us and overwhelm us and consolidate power.”

 

By , Pacific Northwest Contributing Parks Editor

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