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?
Tom Tiffany
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Tom Tiffany is an American politician and a member of the Republican Party, currently serving in the Wisconsin State Assembly since January 7, 2019. He represents the 35th Assembly District, which includes parts of northern Wisconsin. Tiffany has focused on issues such as economic development, natural resources, and education during his time in office. He previously served in the Wisconsin State Senate from 2016 to 2019, where he was known for his conservative stance on various legislative matters.
Actually, Director Sams testified in regard to that point that you just made, that it did not follow the established process.
Creating environmental and social justice areas, I don't think, are what the American people envisioned for this.
In my view, this was an example of a way in which Congress could come together in a bipartisan manner to prioritize conservation and maintenance efforts, because that is what our constituents sent us here to achieve, and that is why I…
We can't pass the Great American Outdoors Act to be popular with our constituents one year and then turn around later and cut that very funding that will allow us to achieve its bipartisan goals.
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.
I hope that your agency is not becoming the Nancy Pelosi Service, rather than the National Park Service.
It turns out that the Administration is proposing a 20 percent cut by going back to Fiscal Year 2023 levels.
However, you can see in the chart the largest increase in the backlog happened the year prior, in Fiscal Year 2021.
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.





