Bay Area Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Marin) has condemned President Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to force national parks to remove historical material from public display as censorship and “pure propaganda.”

Huffman, who serves as ranking member of the House Natural Resources Committee, used his opening remarks at Thursday’s committee hearing to criticize the Trump administration’s attempts to “whitewash” national parks through a March executive order: “ Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History .”

This directive instructs staff working at all National Park Service locations to review any materials that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living,” and to submit them to the federal government for potential removal.

“The Trump administration is trying to censor the history

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