WASHINGTON, July 16 -- Sen. Dick Durbin issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) today released the following statement after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to reduce the boundaries of two national monuments-Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante.
In 2017, the first Trump Administration put 27 national monuments under review with the requirement they were established after 1996 and were over 100,000 acres. Then-Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke recommended six monuments for reduction, but reduced only two monuments-Grand Staircase and Bears Ears. Durbin led the effort against this review and reduction, and in 2021, then-President Biden restored the boundaries of bot...