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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Mon May 22, 2017, 09:11 PM May 2017

New Trump web page asks Americans if they want to ax National Park Service, other key land agencies



A new White House web page asks Americans which agencies they'd like to dismantle. Among the choices: the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other critical environmental departments. Here's how we should respond.

The Trump administration has again shifted its war on conservation, this time taking aim at the pillars of America's public lands: the National Park Service and other agencies. 

Lost amid the furor over the White House's attacks on national monuments, the EPA and the Arctic, a recent executive order asks the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to "eliminate unnecessary agencies" in the name of streamlining government. 

Shockingly, the White House's first step is simply...asking people which agencies they want to get rid of. Rarely do we see attacks on lands, waters and wildlife in such a stark and unmediated light. But sure enough, the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management and numerous others are among those you can select to "eliminate" through a new whitehouse.gov portal between now and June 12.

https://wilderness.org/blog/new-trump-web-page-asks-americans-if-they-want-ax-national-park-service-other-key-land-agencies
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New Trump web page asks Americans if they want to ax National Park Service, other key land agencies (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2017 OP
Vote now! OKIsItJustMe May 2017 #1
Is the executive branch an option? Scurrilous May 2017 #2
Thank you! I had my say. There was another item in the menu Tanuki May 2017 #3

Tanuki

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3. Thank you! I had my say. There was another item in the menu
Mon May 22, 2017, 09:47 PM
May 2017

about Obamacare, i.e. "Share your story," so I gave them a piece of my mind there as well. I hope many Democrats do the ssme.

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