Burgum's Freedom 250 scheme already spent some $100 million in tax dollars for Trump's partisan self-celebration. Now Doug Burgum wants $10 million more from taxpayers on top of corporate sponsorships from Palantir, Exxon, Boeing, and others. https://bit.ly/4brirZ8

The Trump administration wants $10 million more to cover its July Fourth celebrations

Congress allocated $150 million for 250th birthday events. The Trump-backed group that planned the state fair and July 4th fireworks is asking for an additional $10 million in reimbursements.

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Doug Burgum's Interior Department closed the book on a rushed comment period to strip mining and drilling protections from 336,000 acres surrounding Chaco Canyon, land sacred to Pueblo people for a thousand years. 71% of New Mexico voters oppose it. https://bit.ly/4fIRtNX

Public comment period underway on plan to open land around Chaco Canyon to mining

The Trump administration has opened a 14-day public comment period on a plan that could reopen more than 300,000 acres around Chaco Canyon to mining and oil drilling.

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More giveaways by the Trump administration and Data Center Doug Burgum. https://bit.ly/44ZzkGE

Trump Administration Announces Another Data Center on Federal Land

The Energy Department is partnering with developers and utilities to build an artificial intelligence “innovation campus” in Kentucky.

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Doug Burgum signed an ethics agreement promising the American people he’d work on behalf of them, not special interests in North Dakota. He’s broken that promise. The public needs answers on Burgum's corruption at the expense of our parks & public lands. https://bit.ly/4pS9KNm

Doug Burgum Calendar Records Expose Clear Ethics Violation — Save Our Parks

Interior Secretary Burgum Calendars Show Two Meetings With North Dakota Officials He’s Recused From HELENA, MT – Upon taking over the Interior Department, Doug Burgum signed an ethics agreement promising to recuse himself from North Dakota busi...

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Data Center Doug Burgum is giving away Americans’ public lands to a data center developer after the community said no. https://bit.ly/4g60mlW

Bureau of Land Management Approves First-Ever AI Data Center on Public Lands

Data center project in Nevada "is substantially the same" as a previously proposed solar farm, Trump administration claims

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Doug Burgum signed an ethics pledge to recuse from North Dakota business. Then, as Interior Secretary, he met with ND officials anyway, and didn’t disclose the meetings to ethics officials. What is the least transparent and most corrupt Interior Secretary hiding? https://bit.ly/4z9tNLF

Records Show Trump Interior Secretary Met With Former North Dakota Colleagues

The Interior Department said the meetings, which appear on Doug Burgum's official calendar, were “personal” gatherings “with old friends,” not business.

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Doug Burgum has turned our public lands into a piggy bank for Trump’s ego projects. Every dollar diverted to a no-bid contractor with ties to Mar-a-Lago is a dollar not spent maintaining trails, protecting wildlife, or keeping park rangers on the job. https://bit.ly/4vOFrIG

Donald Trump, the No-Bid President

The trouble with competitive bidding is that it gets in the way of corruption. Our president knows how to solve that.

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Doug Burgum is the quiet enabler behind Donald Trump’s multibillion-dollar makeover of D.C., signing off on the grants and decisions that have let a network of donor-funded, no-bid contracts run roughshod over America’s most treasured public spaces. https://bit.ly/4wgQsU9

Trump Goon Scorched Over Secret Vanity Projects Plot

The explosive allegations came during a Capitol Hill hearing examining Trump’s controversial effort to remake the nation’s capital.

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A wealth manager and a telecom executive have no business managing our national parks. Every Senator who voted to advance them owns every acre of public land Doug Burgum sells off and every species his cronies fail to protect. https://bit.ly/4bb9ove

“This backroom deal to sell out America’s public lands for a data center reeks and proves Selloff Steve Pearce hasn’t changed. This was the entirely predictable outcome of putting a conflicted real estate investor in charge of America’s public lands.” bit.ly/4wVLhZO

BLM Head Steve Pearce Ices Public Out to Fast-Track Public Land Giveaway for New Data Center in Nevada — Save Our Parks

Decision to SHUT Public Out and Dispose Public Lands Confirms Deeply-Conflicted Selloff Steve Pearce Hasn’t Changed HELENA, MT – New Bureau of Land Management Director Steve Pearce recently used...

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“Selloff Steve” Pearce used an “extraordinary and liberal interpretation of existing law and regulations” to approve a data center on public land in Nevada, skipping environmental reviews and shutting residents and the public out of the process entirely. https://bit.ly/45rRLUp

A legal shortcut greenlit a data center on public land — and shut the public out

A legal shortcut helped clear the way for a Nevada data center on public land without a new environmental review. Boulder City is now challenging the BLM decision.

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A week after Trump and Doug Burgum stood in Medora, ND praising Theodore Roosevelt's conservation legacy, they helped gut 3 million acres of protected public land in Utah. Actions speak louder than photo ops. https://bit.ly/4ypWfbs

Trump delivers rambling remarks at Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opening in North Dakota - Center for Western Priorities

DENVER—President Donald Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum today attended the opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota. Trump delivered rambling remarks that briefly touched on aspects of Roosevelt’s legacy...

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Not content with shrinking Bears Ears by 90%, Burgum's Interior Department also terminated the Bears Ears Commission, the groundbreaking body that gave Tribal nations a real voice in managing their ancestral lands. This is erasure, plain and simple. https://bit.ly/4aXg6Vv

Here’s why tribes say Trump’s Bears Ears order changed more than the map

President Donald Trump gutted the Bears Ears National Monument, which was originally proposed by five tribes. He also disbanded the Bears Ears Commission, a model for tribal co-management of federal lands.

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Trump just signed off on the largest wholesale rollback of public land protections in American history. 3 million acres of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante stripped of protection overnight, nearly double the scope of the 2017 rollback. https://bit.ly/3QTSXN3

Trump carves deeper into Utah monument protections

The president signed orders shrinking the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, reducing them more than he did in a similar move in

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Trump gutting Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante is just the latest chapter in Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s documented campaign to sabotage America’s national parks and public lands, clearing the way for sell-offs to extractive industries and developers. bit.ly/4yrgVjx

Trump Illegally Guts Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante Again — Save Our Parks

Unpopular Move Contrary to Americans’ Views as Burgum’s Fail-By-Design Plan Undermining Americans’ Beloved Parks and Public Lands Marches On HELENA, MT – Donald Trump signed executive orders ...

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Last week, Donald Trump signed executive orders illegally shrinking Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, which together cover over 5,000 square miles of Utah red rock, ancestral Tribal lands, and irreplaceable cultural sites. https://bit.ly/4pqsxiH

Trump shrinks Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments again

President Donald Trump has issued another executive order once again shrinking the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.

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House and Senate committees, along with the Public Lands and Stewardship caucuses, have had months to hold Doug Burgum and the administration accountable for raiding National Park entrance fees and gutting staff. But they’re looking the other way. bit.ly/4wHCISt

National Park Check-In: Doug Burgum is Leaving America’s Parks Understaffed and Underfunded — Save Our Parks

Memorandum: National Park Check-In: Doug Burgum is Leaving America’s Parks Understaffed and Underfunded To: Interested Parties From: Save Our Parks Date: Thursday, July 9, 2026 Contact: ...

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The America the Beautiful Act is worth passing, but it won’t reverse the staffing losses, restore the diverted fee revenue, or resolve the ongoing legal fight over historical exhibits Burgum and the administration are trying to censor and erase. https://bit.ly/4yhhBrt

Trump admin seeks to block restoration of climate change, diversity info at historical sites

The National Park Service filed an appeal to dismiss a judge's ruling that the federal government must restore historical sites and materials at national parks.

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Lies, lies, and more lies by Trump and his minions in a desperate attempt to justify the illegal gutting of a historic amount of park protections. www.publicdomain.media/p/trump-nati...

The Trump Team Lies To The Public About Utah National Monuments

"You can virtually not even walk on it," Trump falsely claimed before slashing nearly 3 million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.

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As the country celebrates National Parks & Recreation Month, new on-the-ground reporting from Yosemite found traffic jams, overflowing parking lots, and long lines for bathrooms and buses, all while the NPS has lost close to 25% of its permanent staff. https://bit.ly/4vZCENS

Overcrowded and underfunded: Trump’s cuts to national parks threaten the US’s ‘best idea’

This summer, Yosemite national park has been rife with traffic jams and throngs of visitors. Can these popular national treasures withstand a future of strained resources?

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Another sweetheart deal for this admin’s pals and narrow interests. A lot more to cover on how this came to be and the revolving-door former Trump Interior Secretary behind this shady backroom deal. https://lat.ms/4bBOpSh

Trump administration OKs California company's plan to pipe water out of the Mojave Desert

The California company Cadiz has been trying for years to pipe water out of the Mojave Desert. The Trump administration approved a plan for a pipeline.

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Freedom 250 was stood up after America250 refused to bend to the Trump administration’s demands. Donors who believed they were giving to America250 were instead handed Freedom 250’s banking information, a bait-and-switch that may amount to wire fraud. https://n.pr/4vkj3XD

Bears Ears and Grand Staircase belong to Utahns and all Americans, not to wannabe kings and their minions. Congress must step in and stop this illegal effort. https://bit.ly/3QTSXN3

Trump carves deeper into Utah monument protections

The president signed orders shrinking the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, reducing them more than he did in a similar move in

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Meet Burgum’s acting head of parks, fish, & wildlife Kevin Lilly, a wealthy fund manager w/ zero qualifications. Ask your senator why they would even consider this unqualified nominee. https://bit.ly/3Tdd0Xg

From Public Lands to Private Hands | Revolving Door Project

Why should you care about this obscure office with a funny name and the investment banker to whom Trump is entrusting it? Meet Kevin Lilly, Trump’s nominee for Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks of the Interior Department. Last week, t...

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A 55-page report from Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee documents how Doug Burgum’s Interior Department helped the White House hijack America’s 250th birthday and turn it into “a hotbed of corruption and self-enrichment.” https://bit.ly/4eUwDfj

Doug Burgum couldn’t even get basic American history right while hyping Trump’s partisan, pay-to-play Freedom 250 fair. Burgum thinks he knows better than Teddy Roosevelt how to manage our parks, but doesn’t even know when Roosevelt was president. bit.ly/4v8dQSm

Doug Burgum bungles American history on live TV

Interior secretary gets the presidencies of George Washington and Theodore Roosevelt all wrong during interview to promote administration’s 250th anniversary celebrations

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A bombshell report alleges that donors who wanted to give to America250 – the nonpartisan, congressionally-authorized celebration of our 250th – were instead given routing and account numbers for Freedom 250, Trump’s partisan celebration of himself. https://wapo.st/4azO02q

Teddy Roosevelt believed that preserving America’s natural heritage and outdoors birthright was a sacred obligation. No photo op can change the fact that Doug Burgum is destroying that heritage for the administration’s allies and political donors. https://bit.ly/4vEj0GZ

Trump, Burgum out to undo Roosevelt’s legacy, conservation advocates say • North Dakota Monitor

Conservation leaders on Tuesday accused the Trump administration and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum of undermining Theodore Roosevelt's legacy of preserving American land. 

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Donald Trump is seizing national parks money for his vanity projects in DC. Under Interior Decorating Secretary Doug Burgum, more than 900 projects, including guardrail replacements and roof repairs, have lost funding to pay for Trump’s wish fulfillment. bit.ly/4wofFfa

NEW: Doug Burgum Is Raiding America’s National Parks to Fund Trump’s White House Makeover — Save Our Parks

New Atlantic Investigation Confirms $854 Million Seized From Parks Nationwide For Trump Vanity Projects HELENA, MT – A new bombshell investigation confirms that the Trump administration has ...

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Doug Burgum’s job is to protect and preserve America’s national parks. But instead of doing that, he’s spent his time in office raiding park fees, slashing budgets, and cutting the workforce down to the bone to bankroll Trump’s White House makeover. https://bit.ly/4gN224A

'Rush Project at Request of POTUS': Trump Is Draining the National Parks to Pay for His Projects

Money once used for crucial national-park repairs is now financing Trump’s redecorating projects.

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