President Donald Trump has moved to declare the National Links Trust in default on its 50-year lease with the National Park Service, a step that could allow his administration to seize control of Washington, D.C.'s public golf courses.

The Trump administration is terminating a nonprofit's management of three public Washington, DC, golf courses, in what may be the latest effort to put President Donald Trump's stamp on local institutions.

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