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Trump's July 4 speech highlights an ironic victim of his DC vanity projects
Trump Is Eating the Parks to Feed His EgoPower, Not “Funding Sources”The basic story is simple: Donald Trump is using the machinery of the federal government to funnel money toward his preferred Washington vanity projects while the National Park Service sits on a $24.2 billion maintenance backlog. Mount Rushmore is the symbol of the moment because the damage is now visible in the national myth itself: a monument decaying while the president redirects fees collected in the name of public land.This is not an accident of budgeting. It is a power choice. Trump wants the spending, the spectacle…
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