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Joe Neguse: “While you are cutting the National Park Service by a billion…”

Featuring: Joe Neguse, Democratic | U.S. House Colorado, 2nd Congressional District

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Joe Neguse Questions Interior Secretary on Wildfire Preparedness and National Park Service Staffing

Published | Video Starts at 04:29

I think most American people would describe that as vacant. But in any event, what I will just say to you is that While you are cutting the National Park Service by a billion dollars, or at least proposing a cut of a billion dollars, cutting seasonal and temporary employees 39% down within the National Park Service. I find it very interesting that your agency is issuing red tape edicts to national parks, to put up signage for rewriting of American history at these national parks. (04:29–04:43)

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Asserts that there is a proposal to cut the National Park Service budget by a billion dollars and reduce seasonal and temporary employees by 39%.

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