House Democrats are now amplifying their effort to stop the National Park Service and its sister agencies from rewriting historical references deemed inappropriate by the Trump administration.
Heeding the adage to follow the money, 52 Democrats on Thursday urged two key members of the House Appropriations Committee to stop funding the campaign that Interior Secretary Doug Burgum casts as “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” and that skeptics deride as censorship.
“If the Department of the Interior is successful in altering and erasing these stories, the public’s ability to fully understand and learn from our complex history may be compromised,” the lawmakers wrote, adding that “true patriotism requires honest engagement with both our moments of achievement and those of moral failure.”
But Interior press secretary Aubrie Spady countered Friday in a statement that “anyone who views this crucial restoration effort as anything other than the preservation and protection of American history is simply ignoring the facts.”
