White House says it will eliminate national monuments — then scrubs the announcement
The White House said Friday night that it would eliminate protections from millions of acres declared by former President Biden as national monuments — but later scrubbed that language from its fact sheet.
In a fact sheet on an executive order issued late Friday, the Trump administration said it was “terminating proclamations declaring nearly a million acres constitute new national monuments that lock up vast amounts of land from economic development and energy production.”
However, the executive order described by the fact sheet did not contain references to national monuments. By Monday, the language no longer appeared in the fact sheet.
Nevertheless, the White House told The Washington Post that it planned to eliminate two national monuments in California that were established by Biden at the end of his tenure.
These monuments are the Chuckwalla National Monument and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument, which protect a combined 848,000 acres of particular significance to Native tribes in the region.
On Monday, spokespeople for the White House and the Interior Department declined to comment.
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