Top Democrats have launched a probe of the Trump administration’s U.S. Park Police hiring spree that could add hundreds of new officers in the nation’s capital.
In a Monday letter to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), ranking member of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee overseeing the National Park Service, warned that the White House could weaponize park law enforcement.
“The administration is on a deliberate hiring spree to exploit the U.S. Park Police’s jurisdiction and turn it into a tool of the President for him and his ideological extremists to impose their will on the streets of D.C.,” the letter states.
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The Interior Department did not respond to a request for comment.
