WASHINGTON, March 12 -- Sen. Mazie K. Hirono issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) took to the Senate floor to highlight the Trump Administration's attacks on national parks throughout the country. Since he returned to office, President Trump has been targeting national park sites, stripping land protections (https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-TRUMP/PUBLIC-LANDS/zdpxkxdwnvx/), gutting park staff (https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21022025/todays-climate-national-parks-forest-service-layofss/), eliminating the entrance fee-free days for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth-while making his own birthday a fee-free day, and even attempting to remove information at national park sites that he claims ar...