Trump's national parks proposal: Cut $1 billion, transfer many sites to states [View all]
Source: USA Today
Updated May 4, 2025, 12:33 p.m. ET
The new budget proposal from President Donald Trump would reduce the budget for the nation's national parks, monuments, historic sites, seashores and trails by nearly 25% and hand over many of those to the states.
The proposal suggests cutting more than $1.2 billion from the $4.8 billion park service budget. It quickly sparked outrage from leaders of organizations devoted to national parks and recreation lands, who had already voiced concern about the staff cuts ordered by the Department of Governmental Efficiency and other plans raised by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum.
"It's nothing less than an all-out assault on America's national parks," said Theresa Pierno, president and CEO of the National Parks Conservation Association, a nonprofit advocacy group. “This is the most extreme, unrealistic and destructive National Park Service budget a President has ever proposed in the agency’s 109-year history."
In total, the park service cuts are among more than $33 billion in proposed reductions in the budget proposal related to parks and public lands, environmental management, conservation and science-related programs and grants. The Center for Western Priorities called the budget "a bleak vision for America's parks and public lands."
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/04/trump-budget-proposal-cuts-to-parks/83428514007/
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