This could help free land and seas that Obama put off limits to ranchers, farmers and fisherman, greatly harming local economies.

Quote:President Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday instructing the Department of the Interior to review the designations of national monuments by his predecessors, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.

Trump’s order reportedly will instruct Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to examine those designations to determine whether they were within the scope of a century-old law that allows presidents to set aside federal lands without congressional approval.

The executive order is mainly geared toward reviewing President Obama’s designation of Bears Ears National Monument in Utah in December, according to the Tribune. The 1.35 million acre site was preserved due to its Native American heritage, but critics say Obama’s designation was an overreach of executive power.
Trump is expected to sign a broader series of executive orders on energy and the environment this week, following an executive order that began undoing Obama’s climate change agenda.

“I am taking an historic step to lift the restrictions on American energy, to reverse government intrusion and to cancel job-killing regulations,” Trump said last month.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-r...f-national

more #winning from MUH MAGIC WAND

(04-24-2017 01:51 PM)usmbacker Wrote:  

This could help free land and seas that Obama put off limits to ranchers, farmers and fisherman, greatly harming local economies.

Quote:President Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday instructing the Department of the Interior to review the designations of national monuments by his predecessors, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.

Trump’s order reportedly will instruct Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to examine those designations to determine whether they were within the scope of a century-old law that allows presidents to set aside federal lands without congressional approval.

The executive order is mainly geared toward reviewing President Obama’s designation of Bears Ears National Monument in Utah in December, according to the Tribune. The 1.35 million acre site was preserved due to its Native American heritage, but critics say Obama’s designation was an overreach of executive power.
Trump is expected to sign a broader series of executive orders on energy and the environment this week, following an executive order that began undoing Obama’s climate change agenda.

“I am taking an historic step to lift the restrictions on American energy, to reverse government intrusion and to cancel job-killing regulations,” Trump said last month.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-r...f-national

Unless it is a national security matter, I don't think presidents should have that authority, at least not without giving Congress a chance to vote it down.

(04-24-2017 02:09 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(04-24-2017 01:51 PM)usmbacker Wrote:  

This could help free land and seas that Obama put off limits to ranchers, farmers and fisherman, greatly harming local economies.

Quote:President Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday instructing the Department of the Interior to review the designations of national monuments by his predecessors, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.

Trump’s order reportedly will instruct Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to examine those designations to determine whether they were within the scope of a century-old law that allows presidents to set aside federal lands without congressional approval.

The executive order is mainly geared toward reviewing President Obama’s designation of Bears Ears National Monument in Utah in December, according to the Tribune. The 1.35 million acre site was preserved due to its Native American heritage, but critics say Obama’s designation was an overreach of executive power.
Trump is expected to sign a broader series of executive orders on energy and the environment this week, following an executive order that began undoing Obama’s climate change agenda.

“I am taking an historic step to lift the restrictions on American energy, to reverse government intrusion and to cancel job-killing regulations,” Trump said last month.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-r...f-national

Unless it is a national security matter, I don't think presidents should have that authority, at least not without giving Congress a chance to vote it down.

Agreed.

(04-24-2017 02:09 PM)bullet Wrote:  Unless it is a national security matter, I don't think presidents should have that authority, at least not without giving Congress a chance to vote it down.

Wasn't that the argument that Obama used to set that land aside? (I seem to remember that being -among- the reasons it was done)

(04-24-2017 02:52 PM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  

(04-24-2017 02:09 PM)bullet Wrote:  Unless it is a national security matter, I don't think presidents should have that authority, at least not without giving Congress a chance to vote it down.

Wasn't that the argument that Obama used to set that land aside? (I seem to remember that being -among- the reasons it was done)

I don't remember the specifics of the Antiquities Act, but I think Congress has given the President the authority to declare stuff that's already on federal land as a national monument.