Establishing the President's Make America Beautiful Again Commission

The order establishes the President's Make America Beautiful Again Commission, chaired by the Secretary of the Interior, with the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy serving as Executive Director. The Commission also includes the Secretaries of Defense and Agriculture, the EPA Administrator, the OMB Director, the Chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers and the Council on Environmental Quality, and other senior White House and agency officials. The Commission is charged with advising the President on conserving national parks and natural resources, coordinating interagency conservation efforts, developing policies to recover fish and wildlife populations through voluntary collaboration, recommending solutions to expand access to clean drinking water, and crafting policies to expand public-lands access for outdoor recreation.

The order also directs all federal land management agencies, as defined by statute, to follow general policies promoting responsible stewardship, expanding recreational access, reducing bureaucratic delays, and supporting voluntary conservation. The Commission has no independent regulatory authority; it produces recommendations and action plans for the President to act on.

Federal land management agencies across the government, senior Cabinet and White House officials who sit on the Commission, and indirectly, hunters, anglers, hikers, and other users of national parks, national forests, wildlife refuges, and other public lands.

Hunters, anglers, hikers, and other public-lands users could see policy shifts affecting access to parks and forests if the Commission's recommendations are adopted. The $23 billion-plus in deferred National Park Service maintenance and the $10.8 billion Forest Service backlog are the central problems the Commission is tasked with addressing.

The Commission is chaired by the Secretary of the Interior and managed day-to-day by the Domestic Policy Assistant. It operates through interagency coordination, monitoring implementation of the order, and funneling actionable recommendations to the President. Because the Commission is purely advisory, any real policy change requires a subsequent presidential or agency action. No reporting deadlines or performance metrics are specified, and the order's implementation is expressly subject to available appropriations.