Restore National Park Funds Diverted to White House Vanity Projects

Demand an investigation and legislative action to claw back the National Park Service funds that were raided to renovate the White House. Internal budget documents obtained by The Atlantic show nearly $690,000 in NPS taxpayer money was spent on a White House walkway — replacing historic Tennessee flagstone with Italian-carved African granite — while Trump publicly claimed he paid for it himself. That's not a rounding error. That's a lie backed by a paper trail. The real cost is what got cut. Taxpayer funding for D.C. projects surged 92 percent while park spending outside Washington collapsed by $854 million — a 68 percent drop. Yellowstone lost $254 million in regional funding. Yosemite's region lost $235 million. Over 900 maintenance projects nationwide lost expected funding, including a guardrail replacement at Black Canyon and a free bus system at Acadia. The NPS has already shed nearly a quarter of its workforce. As Emily Douce of the National Parks Conservation Association put it, there is "$24 billion of maintenance needs throughout the National Park Service system, and adding these new vanity projects just adds to the need." These are fees collected from park visitors across the country — money meant for the parks that generated it. Redirect it back. Block any further transfers of NPS maintenance funds for White House projects, and hold this administration accountable for the funds already spent.