The national monument encompasses nearly 1 million acres and will conserve and protect ancestral places significant to Indigenous people in the region.
Mitt Romney and Mike Lee criticized President Joe Biden for designating a new national monument near the Grand Canyon on Tuesday. “National monuments have become a political football tossed back and forth as presidential administrations change,” said Romney, a Republican. “President Biden’s proclamation of 1.1 million acres around the Grand Canyon in Arizona as a national monument continues the cycle of Antiquities Act abuse by the Executive Branch.”