WASHINGTON â U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn has a new idea for protecting the still-unfinished border wall championed by former President Donald Trump: Turn any part of the wall into a national monument.
Cawthorn, a first-term Republican who represents far-western North Carolina, even wants to honor Trump with the bill. Heâs a calling it âDonument.â Cawthorn introduced the legislation last week.
âThe Donument Act establishes the southern border wall as the âSouthern Border Wall National Monument,â and gives the monument permanent protection from alteration,â Cawthorn said in a statement promoting the bill.
The national monument would consist of 289,920 acres of land in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The secretary of interior would be in charge of administration of the monument.