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    Commentary: Trump's stance on national monuments is straight out of the 19th century

    by Laura Dominguez, Los Angeles Times Feb 25, 2019 3 minutes

    As outrage over family separations at the border erupted last summer, news quietly broke about a different Trump administration policy. The Washington Post reported that senior officials at the Interior Department had dismissed evidence supporting the historic, cultural and economic value of national monuments in a review they conducted of more than two dozen sites.

    In that original review, submitted to the White House in August 2017, Ryan Zinke, former secretary of the Interior, recommended the administration modify 10 national monuments and shrink at least four Western sites.

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