President Trump is eyeing a takeover of the Washington, D.C., public golf system, but local golf officials and elected leaders are vowing not to cede control of the city’s affordable courses.

The administration earlier this fall sent a notice of default to the National Links Trust, the local public-private nonprofit that has overseen and operated D.C.’s three municipal golf courses since 2020.

The notice, first reported by The Washington Post, came only five years after the nonprofit signed a 50-year lease with the National Park Service, which reports to the president through the Department of the Interior and owns the land the three courses are built on.

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