🧵 ATTN veterans & public lands owners - did you know @SenMikeLee is back with another nefarious plan to sell our public lands - again?
Meet Steve Pearce. He’s Lee’s hand-picked guy to run the Bureau of Land Management.
He's known as #SellOffSteve for a reason. Here’s why…
Access to clean drinking water ranks as Americans’ top environmental priority. Yet the Trump administration could be on the verge of reversing fundamental protections for public lands serving as vital clean water sources for millions. Read more ➡️ https://t.co/AqTNOgZQXp
More than 16 million acres of public land could be for sale in California if Republicans pass their Big Ugly Bill.
Ridiculous.
Keep public lands in public hands. https://t.co/s3g4Gv1tNp
Kathleen Sgamma, who thinks there is too much federal public land, is now President Trump’s choice to lead the federal government's largest land management agency.
new w/ @JamesCTobias
https://t.co/zGf4kcEmO2
More than half of Americans (56%) say that President Donald Trump is rushing to make change without considering the impact of his decisions, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll released Monday. That includes two-thirds of independents and 11% of Trump voters.
Another 43% of Americans believe the president is doing what needs to be done to get the government on track.
The first 43 days of the Trump administration have been a rapid-fire rush of executive actions. The president has signed 76 executive orders so far, more than the total number he signed in any single year of his first term. Tens of thousands of federal workers have been fired so far.
In follow-up conversations with PBS News, poll respondents described the president’s first month as everything from “fabulous” to “chaos” to “disaster.” Impressions were divided strongly along party lines, and none of the people we spoke to changed their views of Trump since the election.
The president’s supporters, including self-described political independent Dominique Evans from California, like Trump’s efforts to bring about change to government. “Hopefully, it’s for the better,” she said.
“Dead weight is being cut away,” Pennsylvania Republican Evelyn Ardini said. She likes the cutbacks to the federal workforce implemented by the Trump administration and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, spearheaded by Elon Musk. She, too, urged Trump’s dissenters to “give him some time” for the effects of his policy changes to be felt.
Others said that the cuts to government have gone too far.
Tanya Staud is another independent voter who cast a ballot for Harris last year. She suggested she is not opposed to reevaluating government spending priorities, but she objected to the unilateral way the administration – and “king” Trump – is deciding what to cut.
“I agree that some things we should not be funding. We need to watch our spending,” she said. “But Congress is who controls the purse strings.”
w/ another trifecta in hand, the Trump GOP has taken its gloves off on federal public lands—pushing a multi-pronged effort to undermine, chip away at & pawn off the public domain
new from @PDInvestigates—a look at this new chapter in a longstanding fight
https://t.co/EbAAzYZnkX
The men and women who have dedicated their lives to protecting our public lands are being laid off in the thousands and it’s going to hurt our ability to respond to fire season.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are putting our people, our homes, and our lands at risk.
Early impacts of @elonmusk and his team’s purge of the federal workforce are already hitting America’s parks and public lands, while oil and gas industry loyalists shift remaining government resources to prioritize corporate profits. https://t.co/QJ5GTlVeLA
In the words of Tribal Chairman Yatch Bamford at today's press event in DC - Protect Sáttítla!
Help us protect Sáttítla Medicine Lake Highlands -
add your name to the petition to President Biden calling for a national monument designation!
https://t.co/WuToeYaW3Q #California
The proposed Chuckwalla National Monument would protect 660,000 acres just south of Joshua Tree National Park, safeguarding biodiversity & ensuring more equitable access to nature for local communities.
Learn more in our latest Postcard film. #protectchuckwalla#30x30CA#30x30
Colorado River Valley tribes are calling for President Biden to protect vast swaths of desert in California's Imperial County as a national monument. The photos by @HenleMark are truly spectacular: https://t.co/28J3iwNQqy via @Debkrol
STRONG Editorial from the @latimes Biden should protect more of California's mountains and deserts as national monuments #https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-12-24/editorial-expand-californias-national-monuments-its-mountains-and-deserts-are-important-resources
"This ill-considered trade reveals how land management agencies pander to wealthy interests, do not properly value public land, & restrict opportunities for public involvement...an ongoing scandal in #Colorado that receives little attention" @BLMNational
https://t.co/QCW9kvgqqO