It’s the height of visitor season at Mammoth Cave National Park in southern Kentucky. Parking lots are full, and cars line the roadways. Visitors are clamoring for spots on underground tours of the longest cave system in the world.

Since taking office in January, the Trump administration has made cuts of roughly 24% to permanent staffing at the National Park Service, affecting parks all across the country, but on the historic tour through Mammoth Cave along with more than 100 other people, it could be hard to spot any change.

That’s because the cuts so far have largely affected maintenance, scientific research and emergency response services.

Republicans in Congress are now considering additional cuts of more than $400-million dollars to the budget of the Department of the Interior, the

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