An open letter to the U.S. Congress

STOP Trump's vanity monuments now. Restore NPS funding. IMPEACH Trump now

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Please stop Trump from improperly diverting National Parks Service Funding to his grotesque vanity projects and monuments to himself in DC. His property development stunts -- from demolishing the East Wing to the fiasco of the Reflecting Pool are corrupt desecrations that merit impeachment. I am sure you are aware of all the details of the corrupt and botched interventions to the reflecting pool: the no-bid contract, the lack of expert advice, the catastrophic result. I am OUTRAGED by the extravagance and self-aggrandising pomposity. And I am sure you see the wreckage of the East Wing Daily. What about the project to gild statues? Making statues gold while you cut snap? And the hideous eyesore of the planned triumphal arch? The costly and unnecessary repaving in the White House grounds? Meanwhile the National Parks, one of our best loved national treasures are suffering terribly from funding cuts, visitors have even died as a result of cuts to regular staffing and upkeep. Trump is a tenant not a king. The White House is not a palace. Trump is incessantly violating the constitution by usurping Congress's power of appropriating. Please use all the means at hand to stop Trump's vanity projects and restore the NPS: Please: Enforce the Commemorative Works Act. It explicitly requires congressional approval and a rigorous, independent review process before new national monuments or major memorial complexes can be built on the National Mall. Use subpoenas, hearings, investigations and criminal referrals. Legislate. PLEASE: REFUSE to confirm ANY NOMINEES while these illegal construction stunts continue. You have the power to bring this illegality to a halt. Use it. Please also DEFUND these projects. Block the siphoning of National Park entrance fees and Legacy Restoration. All this talk about corruption and waste. The chief of corruption is Trump spending money that he's not allowed to spend, diverting it from our beloved shared national parks and using it vandalise DC with illegal erections, demolitions, and other incompetent non approved unnecessary interventions. Trump's unlawful demolition of part of the White House is yet another high crime or misdemeanor; his impoundment of congressionally appropriated funds is also impeachable: Please: DO YOUR JOB. STOP THIS NOW If you are inclined to do nothing, read Shelley's Ozymandias and consider how the next generation will remember you: will you be an enabler of tyranny, corruption, cruelty and illegality? "I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said - "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert.... Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away."

▶ Created on June 28 by Mary · 2,905 signers in the past 7 days

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