WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on President Donald Trump’s executive order mandating a review of the designation of tens of millions of acres of U.S. land as national monuments.
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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order mandating the review of dozens of national monuments designated by his predecessors over the past 20 years.
Trump’s move could upend protections of federal lands in Utah and other states.
Trump says during an appearance at the Interior Department that the order will end what he is calling an “egregious abuse of federal power” and give power back – as he puts it – “to the states and the people where it belongs.”