What a shitty thing to do on the USA’s birthday, as if it will do any help to the USA’s already ravaged tourism industry. It’s sad since compared to the rest of the functioning world, the National Park System is the ONLY good thing going for the USA. And yet Trump wants to jeopardize that!
Dear rest of the world, please visit North America but definitely consider changing your US itineraries to Canada so you won’t directly give any money to Trump’s USA or fear being jailed if something is wrong with your paperwork.
I suspect that declining attendance at public parks will be used as justification to fund them less, then shut them down, then sell off the land to resource exploiters.
It’s exactly like the plan with Medicaid: burdensome bullshit paperwork makes people either just stop trying, or resent the government…making it far easier to reduce the capability of already meager social programs even further.
Haven’t they already allowed mineral extraction in national parks?