SENATORS MARKEY, BLUNT ROCHESTER LEAD COLLEAGUES IN DEMANDING A STOP TO THE USE OF TAXPAYER FUNDS FOR CENSORSHIP OF HISTORICAL NATIONAL PARK EXHIBITS

WASHINGTON, April 20 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey issued the following press release:

Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-Del.), members of the Environment and Public Works Committee, led 15 colleagues in a letter requesting that the Fiscal Year 2027 appropriations legislation include language that would prohibit the use of taxpayer funds to implement or enforce the Department of the Interior Secretarial Order 3431, which requires the review of "all public monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties" and the removal of content deemed to "inappropriately disparage Americans past or living." The letter was sent to the chair and ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interi...