House Democrats Urge Colleagues To Block Funding For Censorship In National Parks

Leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives' Interior appropriation committee were urged Thursday to block future funding for the Trump administration's work to censor materials in the National Park System.

"...this administration has undermined the integrity of our national park system and weakened the agency tasked with protecting our history. Cuts to NPS funding and staff have strained park maintenance and severely impacted the agency’s history preservation programs," reads a portion of the letter sent to the appropriators.

"Secretarial Order 3431 compounds the damage by imposing burdensome and partisan reviews on an already beleaguered workforce," it continues. "The Secretary’s intimidation tactics have injected additional confusion and burden on NPS staff and threaten to negate decades of work by NPS to represent a broader swath of American history."

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