Mark Gruenberg and John Wojcik at People’s World report President Donald Trump is moving the business of preserving national forests from Washington, D.C. to Utah with the expectation is that those who would privatize public lands will be better able to rake in profits from the privatization. And - how dare Working People think that public forests and national parks belong to them? Not when they are just waiting to be grabbed by privatizers aiming to turn them into profit machines. The Trump Administration’s plan to chop down not just a bunch of trees but to chop down the entire U.S. Forest Service is “reckless, illegal” and a prelude to giving away public lands to private hands, says the United States Forest Service Workers’ Union President, Randy Erwin, who heads the National Federation of Federal Employees/International Association of Machinists. Erwin wants Congress to step in, assert its Constitutional authority over Federal spending, launch investigations and refer appropriate Trump Officials to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution. Said Erwin: “The bottom line is that Congress must do their jobs. We view this as not just a policy disagreement that will result in the collapse of the Forest Service as we know it, but also a breach of the Constitution. President Trump is blatantly attempting to ignore the laws his own party passed. Congress must stand up for their authority and protect the public lands of the American People.”

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