“President Donald Trump signed an executive order drastically shrinking the size of two national monument areas in Utah on Monday,” Fox News reports.
“The order applies to the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments, shrinking their total coverage by roughly 90% from 3 million acres to 300,000. The areas were established as federal monuments by President Bill Clinton in 1996 and Barack Obama in 2016 respectively.”
Said Trump: “They took the land from the people quite honestly. We’re giving it back.”
