Trump’s Interior Chief Rewrites History Of National Monuments As He Prepares Cuts

Doug Burgum says modern presidents have abused the Antiquities Act, using sweeping national monuments as "precursors" to national parks. The Grand Canyon would like a word.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum speaks at the 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland in March. Photo credit: Gage Skidmore

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum either doesn’t know or is purposefully rewriting the history of the Antiquities Act, the 1906 law…