<p>House Republicans are proposing legislation to protect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mount-rushmore" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mount Rushmore</a> from being renamed or destroyed.</p>
<p>The bill comes as Native Americans and others have <a href="https://www.history.com/news/mount-rushmore-native-american-protests#:~:text=Among%20the%20most%20notable%20in,desecration%20of%20a%20spiritual%20site." target="_blank" rel="noopener">protested</a> the national memorial, located in South Dakota, which features sculptures of Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt carved into a mountain in the Black Hills.</p>
<p>Introduced Tuesday by Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD), the bill would require no federal funds be used to make any alterations or remove any feature of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Nine Republicans have signed on as co-sponsors, <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/386/cosponsors?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22%22%5D%7D&amp;r=12&amp;s=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Congress.gov</a>. No Democrats are listed as co-sponsors.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our nation’s history is not without its flaws, but there is no doubt the faces on Mount Rushmore represent democracy, freedom and the great American experiment,&#8221; Johnson said, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-moves-protect-mount-rushmore-activists-rename-tear-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to Fox News</a>. &#8220;Removing or changing Mount Rushmore will not change the past and will not move us forward as a country. We must protect Mount Rushmore for generations to come.&#8221;</p>
<p>Johnson <a href="https://dustyjohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-introduces-mount-rushmore-protection-act-amid-calls-retire-mount" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously introduced</a> the &#8220;Mount Rushmore Protection Act&#8221; in 2022 in response to former NBA player Jalen Rose’s call to “retire” the monument. At the time, Rose <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/espns-jalen-rose-slams-mount-rushmore-stop-using-it-to-measure-greatness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said Mount Rushmore</a> &#8220;should be offensive to all of us, especially Native Americans and indigenous people, who were the first people here before Christopher Columbus. That land was stolen from them.”</p>
<p>Native American leaders have criticized Mount Rushmore as a symbol of &#8220;white supremacy&#8221; and &#8220;structural racism.&#8221; They have also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/south-dakota-tribal-leader-on-mt-rushmore-remove-it-but-dont-blow-it-up-less-environmental-damage-that-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called for its removal</a>. Suggestions of going as far as to blow up the monument prompted Governor Kristi Noem (R-SD) in 2020 to say, &#8220;Not on my watch.&#8221;</p>
<p>Noem announced last week the Biden administration <a href="https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1613657185069989890" target="_blank" rel="noopener">again rejected her request</a> for a permit to have a fireworks display at Mount Rushmore for Independence Day. Former President Donald Trump delivered a speech at Mount Rushmore on July 3, 2020, the last time fireworks were permitted at the site. Trump said last week fireworks at the monument would make a return if he is reelected president.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">President Trump gave us the Freedom to celebrate Independence Day with fireworks at Mount Rushmore.</p>
<p>Let’s bring it back in 2025! And we’ll keep pushing Biden to do the right thing until then. <a href="https://t.co/LeKxHau2XT">pic.twitter.com/LeKxHau2XT</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) <a href="https://twitter.com/KristiNoem/status/1613916693373255683?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;President Trump gave us the Freedom to celebrate Independence Day with fireworks at Mount Rushmore,&#8221; Noem said in response. &#8220;Let’s bring it back in 2025! And we’ll keep pushing Biden to do the right thing until then.&#8221;</p>

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