YouTube: Donald Trump’s proposed FY 2026 budget for the National Park Service is nothing less than catastrophic. Among other measures, the budget proposes firing 5,500 more Park Rangers, reducing the agency’s budget by $1 billion, and selling off 350 of the Park System’s 433 Units. Defenders of Wildlife has called it an “extinction budget,” and NPCA has said the National Parks will be “completely decimated.” In this video, I’m breaking down the Trump Budget and its impact on the National Park System.

See also 250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in SENR budget reconciliation package. The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee budget reconciliation bill text released June 11, and updated June 14, includes a range of extraordinary giveaways aimed at privatizing public lands and advancing energy dominance at the expense of public lands and resources. Key takeaways on the public lands sell-off title:

• The bill forces the arbitrary sale of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands in 11 Western states over the next five years, and it gives the secretaries of the interior and agriculture broad discretion to choose which places should be sold off.

See also Defenders of Wildlife – Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Sells Out Wildlife Along with American Lands and Waters

• Mandate the sell-off of at least 2 million acres of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management public lands for development in eligible states including Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
• Require quarterly lease sales of onshore oil and gas in any state with available land, including Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Nevada and Alaska.
• Increase logging by raising timber targets and requiring the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to issue 45 contracts that will last for the next 20 years.