President Donald Trump’s decision to reduce two national monuments in the West is coming under fire. A roundup of editorials Tuesday takes a look at the issue.
Opinions from the left:
1. Trump’s cuts to national monuments hurt native Americans most
From Slate: Cutting the monuments will do nothing but make the rich a lot richer.
2 . Time to put limits on the Antiquities Act
From The Salt Lake Tribune: If the president can do this without regard to what the people of the state want, what else will he do?
3. No plausible reason to shrink monuments
From The World: What is Trump thinking with the decision to shrink the monuments?
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