Federal Land Management

The Trump administration has terminated the National Links Trust’s 50‑year lease with the National Park Service to manage and renovate Washington, D.C.’s three municipal golf courses—Rock Creek, East Potomac and Langston—asserting the nonprofit is in default and returning the courses to direct federal control about five years into the agreement. National Links Trust disputes the default claim, says course operations will remain open but long‑term renovations, including an in‑progress Rock Creek Park rehabilitation, are being halted as contractors demobilize, and the move follows President Trump’s recent comments about potentially redoing the capital’s courses himself.