WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement after E&E reported that the Trump Administration is considering selling off America’s public lands to pay for tax cuts for billionaires:
“For weeks, the Trump Administration has covertly laid the foundation to sell off Americans’ public lands to fund tax handouts for billionaire donors. Now, Republicans’ plans are out in the open.
“If they succeed, Donald Trump and Elon Musk will sell off your right to access the places you know and love: The place you first learned to fish or harvested your first elk. The campground your family goes to on long weekends. The trail you hike to clear your head. The site that was sacred to your ancestors and is now sacred to you. All of these places could be up for auction to the highest bidder if Republicans have their way.
“For Americans wondering what we can do to stop this: Call your members of Congress. Call the White House. Make it clear to the President himself just how unpopular these attacks on our American birthright are. Public lands belong in public hands.”
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