Utah s governor, congressional delegation meet with Interior Secretary on Bears Ears
Utah s governor, congressional delegation meet with Interior Secretary on Bears Ears
and last updated 2021-04-07 23:33:02-04
BLANDING, Utah â Governor Spencer Cox and members of Utah s congressional delegation had a private meeting with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Wednesday night.
She is visiting Bears Ears National Monument before making a recommendation to President Biden about whether to undo President Trump s executive order shrinking the controversial monument.
In an interview this week with FOX 13, Gov. Cox said he expected the monument s size to increase again, but he hoped for an end to the ping-pong nature of Republican and Democratic administrations using the Antiquities Act to suit their purposes.
LaPierre made the admission in a deposition connected to the NRA’s bankruptcy case in Dallas.
“They simply let me use it as a security retreat because they knew the threat that I was under. And I was basically under presidential threat without presidential security in terms of the number of threats I was getting,” LaPierre said.
“And all of us were struggling with how to deal with that type situation with a private citizen with the amount of threat that we were having. And this was the one place that I hope could feel safe, where I remember getting there going, ‘Thank God I’m safe, nobody can get me here.’ And that’s how it happened. That’s why I used it.”
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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox takes a selfie with Rep. Blake Moore, U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson and Sen. Mitt Romney. The group toured ancient dwellings along the Butler Wash trail at Bears Ears National Monument near Blanding on Thursday.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland met with tribal leaders as well as Utah state leaders Wednesday in San Juan County to talk about Bears Ears National Monument. They toured the monument together Thursday morning.
Haaland is visiting southern Utah this week as part of an Interior Department review of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. Former-president Donald Trump shrunk both monuments in 2017 at the behest of Utah politicians.
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The Bears Ears of the Bears Ears National Monument are pictured from the air on Monday, May 8, 2017. Navajo Nation leaders called for full restoration and expansion of the Bears Ears National Monument to 1.9 million acres in a meeting with U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland on Wednesday in Bluff, Utah.
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Navajo Nation leaders called for full restoration and expansion of the Bears Ears National Monument to 1.9 million acres in a meeting with U.S. Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland on Wednesday in Bluff, San Juan County.
The move would reverse former President Donald Trump’s sweeping reduction of the national monument designated under former President Barack Obama.