Trump administration takes again management of D.C. golf programs

Washington — The Trump administration has terminated the Nationwide Hyperlinks Belief’s lease with the Nationwide Park Service to handle, function and renovate Washington, D.C.’s three municipal golf programs, successfully taking again federal management of the programs.  

Nationwide Hyperlinks Belief, a nonprofit that claims its goal is to make golf accessible to the general public, mentioned the Trump administration is asserting they’re in default of the lease, a characterization with which the group strongly disagrees. The lease was 5 years into its 50-year time period overlaying the district’s Rock Creek, East Potomac and Langston programs. The Nationwide Park Service owns the land. 

“We’re essentially in disagreement with the administration’s characterization of NLT as being in default beneath the lease,” the group mentioned in an announcement. “We’ve all the time had a productive and cooperative working relationship with the Nationwide Park Service and have labored hand in hand on all elements of our golf course operations and improvement initiatives.”

Nationwide Hyperlinks Belief mentioned the programs will stay open for now, however long-term renovation initiatives will stop. 

“At our in-progress Rock Creek Park rehabilitation mission, development has been stopped and our normal contractor is within the means of demobilizing,” the group mentioned. “After 5 years spent navigating the advanced Federal allowing processes, this improvement is extraordinarily disappointing for all who’ve supported the mission.”

President Trump, who spends many weekends {golfing}, has floated the opportunity of redoing the district’s programs. “If we do them, we’ll do it actually fantastically,” he mentioned in an interview with The Wall Avenue Journal on Dec. 12. 

CBS Information doesn’t have entry to the lease or monetary statements to confirm the claims of the events of the lease. 

“The Trump administration prides itself on getting the job executed for the American folks and partnering with others who share that very same objective,” mentioned the Inside Division, which oversees the Nationwide Park Service.