If, in fact, a Federal Government that has a $19 trillion debt and a $12 billion backlog in the National Park Service to maintain the existing parks and monuments cannot fully fund the build-out and the maintenance of this national monument with the endowment alone, who gets stuck with the tab?
Poliquin questions the financial sustainability of maintaining a new national monument.
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