Don’s ‘monumental’ slap

PRESIDENT TRUMP signed an executive order Wednesday directing his interior secretary to review the designation of dozens of national monuments on federal lands.

During a signing ceremony at the Interior Department, Trump said the order would end “another egregious abuse of federal power” and “give that power back to the states and to the people where it belongs.”

Trump accused the Obama administration of using the 1906 Antiquities Act to “unilaterally put millions of acres of land and water under strict federal control” — a practice Trump derided as “a massive federal land grab.”

In December, President Barack Obama infuriated Utah Republicans by creating the Bears Ears National Monument on more than 1 million acres of land that’s sacred to Native Americans and home to tens of thousands of archaeological sites.

The Antiquities Act does not give the president explicit power to undo a designation and no president has ever taken such a step. Trump ordered a review of several dozen monuments across the country designated since 1996.

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