National Park fee increase possible

You can’t talk about the NPS backlog and underfunding without talking about the growing share of our federal budget which is devoted to entitlements - Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security - and interest on the debt. The only way our budget trajectory can change is when everyone agrees to act like an adult and sacrifice something for the good of future Americans. We will all have to give up something, or the 4 expenses above alone will total more than all federal revenue within 15 years. There won’t be room for anything else - education, homeland security, national defense, to say nothing of the interior department and the NPS.