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Effort to shrink Bears Ears National Monument started before Donald Trump was elected president

Sen. Orrin Hatch and Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son, were key players in the anti-monument campaign.<br>

(Susan Walsh | AP file photo) President Donald Trump, left, sitting next to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, right, speaks during a meeting of the committee and members of the President's economic team in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017.