Tom Tiffany

We are very concerned that this has become Nancy's Park Service, with a quarter of the funding for deferred maintenance going to one Representative's district.

Do you support the Tribe putting barricades on the roads like they did at the end of January?

How do you have a negotiation that works in good faith if you can't have the appraisals out in front of you?

Did you direct anybody in your senior leadership to tell the National Parks Service Director to transfer $200 million in IRA funds to the Presidio Trust?

Actually, Director Sams testified in regard to that point that you just made, that it did not follow the established process.

It turns out that the Administration is proposing a 20 percent cut by going back to Fiscal Year 2023 levels.

Are we turning these into Taj Mahals? Is that what you are saying?

All the Presidio Trust has to do is go to the billionaires that are out there in Silicon Valley, go to Mrs. Jobs, go to Mr. Zuckerberg, go to Sergey Brin and the Google crowd who have these billions of dollars. Just go ask them for the…

Secretary Haaland said a 22 percent cut in National Park Service would be catastrophic.

The Park Service's own budget proposes a nearly 20 percent decrease.

For under one-fifth of the money that you chose to spend on a DC-area road, you could have fixed all of our needs at Voyageurs National Park.

However, you can see in the chart the largest increase in the backlog happened the year prior, in Fiscal Year 2021.

How do you reconcile the fact that Secretary Haaland said a 22 percent cut in National Park Service would be catastrophic, while your own executive budget recommends a 20 percent cut?

Did you or anybody in the Administration have conversations with former Speaker Pelosi's office about modifying the language in the Democrats' final reconciliation bill to disguise from the American public the fact that $200 million for…

The gentlelady yields back. Now, we are going to do a second round of questioning if anyone wants to do that on the panel, and I will start out.

I would just like you to, with a straight face, can you say it is OK that a quarter percent of the National Park Service's deferred maintenance went to one Congressional district?

I hope that your agency is not becoming the Nancy Pelosi Service, rather than the National Park Service.

That would be deeply problematic, particularly if one believes that we ought to be addressing some of these maintenance needs that I know the Chair and I both care deeply about.

We are going to hold the Biden administration accountable for every dollar of precious taxpayer money that is being spent.

I have the utmost faith that every single Member seated around this dais today wants nothing more than for the Park Service to rise to the challenge and finally tackle its long-standing deferred maintenance needs.

So, while we have this letter from Secretary Haaland decrying what may be these draconian cuts that she says are due to Congressional Republicans and their actions, it turns out that the Administration is proposing a 20 percent cut by…

I think that is unacceptable, and it goes against the intent of the Great American Outdoors Act, and it is why we should not have earmarks like that.

This deferred maintenance doesn't just affect visitor experiences. They can also lead to serious public safety issues.

Despite knowing about this $10 billion backlog increase and repeated requests to conduct additional oversight, Congressional Democrats refused to hold a hearing on the implementation of the GAOA last Congress.

the Administration is proposing a 20 percent cut by going back to Fiscal Year 2023 levels.