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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, December 7th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

On Monday, President Trump visited Salt Lake City to announce that his administration was drastically

reducing the size of two national monuments.

In the new plan, Bears' ears nationalument would shrink by 85 percent, and Grand

Staircase Escalante by 50 percent.

In total, over two million acres will be open to private use, the largest rollback of federal

lands protection in the history of the United States.

In September 1996, President Clinton visited the rim of the United States. In September 1996, President Clinton

visited the rim of the Grand Canyon to announce the establishment of the Grand

Staircase Escalante National Monument. On this remarkable site, God's handiwork is

everywhere in the natural beauty of the Escalante Cyons and in the Keparowitz Plateau,

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