{"id":4868,"date":"2026-07-14T00:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/designworktesting.com\/projects\/freedom-news\/2026\/07\/14\/what-to-know-about-trumps-order-shrinking-the-size-of-2-national-monuments-in-utah\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T00:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T00:04:12","slug":"what-to-know-about-trumps-order-shrinking-the-size-of-2-national-monuments-in-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designworktesting.com\/projects\/freedom-news\/2026\/07\/14\/what-to-know-about-trumps-order-shrinking-the-size-of-2-national-monuments-in-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about Trump&#8217;s order shrinking the size of 2 national monuments in Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Revisiting actions from his first term that were reversed, President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will scale back the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican\u2019s actions undo proclamations from his predecessors who deemed the sites worthy of preservation under the Antiquities Act, a 1906 law that gives presidents power to protect areas of cultural, historic or scientific interest.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made similar moves during his first term, but many were reversed by his successor, President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The back-and-forth underscores how national monuments have become a flashpoint over the management of public lands. Trump is not the first president to reduce the size of monuments.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a look at U.S. national monuments and presidents who have created or reshaped them:<\/p>\n<p> How many national monuments have Biden and Trump acted on?<\/p>\n<p>Trump made only a handful of Antiquities Act proclamations during his first term, including two that reduced the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revisiting actions from his first term that were reversed, President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will scale back the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah. The Republican\u2019s actions undo proclamations from his predecessors who deemed the sites worthy of preservation under the Antiquities Act, a 1906 law that gives presidents power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/designworktesting.com\/projects\/freedom-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/designworktesting.com\/projects\/freedom-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/designworktesting.com\/projects\/freedom-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designworktesting.com\/projects\/freedom-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/designworktesting.com\/projects\/freedom-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/designworktesting.com\/projects\/freedom-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designworktesting.com\/projects\/freedom-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/designworktesting.com\/projects\/freedom-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}