March 3, 2020: Trump Claims He's Raising Funding for National Parks (He's Lying)

3/3/20: It turns out Trump doesn’t have his stock market mojo back! The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates ½ percent to counteract any slowdown in the U.S. economy due to the coronavirus threat. 

The Dow still drops 786 points. 

Meanwhile, Dr. Zero (a.k.a. Donald J. Trump) continues to insist that a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus might be just around the corner. Kind of like he convinced Kim Jong-un to give up all his nukes back in June 2018. 

Anyway, the president finds himself in a bit of a pickle. First and foremost, he’s clueless when it comes to the science of the virus. For sure, he’s too lazy intellectually to study the topic. That means he’s reduced to shouting nonsense at rallies and tweeting nonsense in between.

 

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Glacier National Park.

Mount Rainier National Park.

Clear mountains stream - Yosemite National Park.

Lower Falls, Yellowstone National Park.

Hikers in Zion.

TODAY, HE POSTED NONSENSE about how he wants, “Congress to send me a Bill that fully and permanently funds the LWCF [Land and Water Conservation Fund] and restores our National Parks. When I sign it into law, it will be HISTORIC for our beautiful public lands. ALL thanks to @SenCoryGardner and @SteveDaines, two GREAT Conservative Leaders!” 

This would be truly HISTORIC news – because Trump keeps trying every year to cut funds for the Interior Department, which runs the parks. 

As the National Parks Conservation Association, or NPCA, noted just last month, the proposed federal budget for Fiscal Year 2021 would cut park funding by $587 million (a 17 percent reduction). 

Trump and his buds also hoped to slash funding for the E.P.A. by $2.4 billion (a 26 percent cut). 

In addition, the NPCA noted, the proposal “nearly zeros out funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a critical conservation tool that supports local tourism and recreational economies and enhances opportunities for the American public to enjoy access to its public lands.”

 

In other words, someone must have poked Trump with a sharp stick and informed him how unpopular his administration’s ideas were. 

As far as protecting the parks, you could go back to FY 2020, when Team Trump tried to cut funding for the Interior Department by 14 percent. 

Or FY 2019, when the national parks were supposed to absorb a 7 percent cut. 

And, of course, you had the 12 percent cut proposed in FY 2018.