@RepHuffman : "You want to put his name on coins and buildings and park passes. You want to penalize people who cover up this shrine to Donald Trump. We take an oath to the Constitution. It seems all of you took an oath to Donald Trump."
For over two decades, America the Beautiful passes featured winning photos from a public contest celebrating our national parks. The Trump administration scrapped that tradition and plastered Trump's face on the pass instead. When visitors started covering his image with stickers, the Department of Interior changed its rules to void any 'altered' passes and penalize them.
Ranking Member Huffman called out what's really happening: an administration turning public lands into a loyalty test.
This weekend, Trump is trying to rededicate America as a “Christian Nation”. How about we rededicate ourselves back to reality?
250 years ago, our founders created America to be free from religion. And my colleagues in the Freethought Caucus have the receipts.
That's an industrial drilling rig breaking ground on Donald Trump's 250-foot vanity arch, on federal land looming over Arlington National Cemetery, where 400,000 American servicemembers are buried.
Yesterday, I asked Interior Secretary Doug Burgum about this project under oath in the Natural Resources Committee. He swore there wasn't a project. Not even a proposal. Just a discussion.
@RepHuffman standing in front of what's actually happening.
A federal judge warned this administration not to break ground while litigation is pending. Veterans and military families are in court right now to stop it. Trump is moving forward anyway, the same way he plowed through the East Wing demolition: no permission, no process, no respect for the law or the people who pay for it.
Families across the country are getting crushed by the cost of gas, groceries, and rent, and Trump's response is to spend their tax dollars building a monument to himself on top of a cemetery.
We see what they're doing. We're not going to let them get away with it.
I got to teach Trump’s “Energy Czar” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum about an exciting new technology he clearly didn’t know about.
It’s called a battery.
🚨 @RepHuffman to Trump's Interior Secretary: "This is the most nakedly corrupt administration in American history."
"You have treated our public lands & waters like assets on a corporate balance sheet so that billionaires, foreign companies, & political donors can profit."
TODAY: Trump’s conservative Supreme Court dealt a massive blow to voting rights that could pave the way for Republicans to discriminate against minority voters. Every American deserves the right to vote and have their voice heard.
We’re still in the middle of Trump’s pointless war in Iran. Prices are soaring, people are dying, and Republicans are doing nothing to rein in their wannabe dictator.
I just introduced another War Powers Resolution, because my Progressive colleagues and I will not give up until this conflict ends and Trump is held accountable.
Happy Earth Day! Here's what Trump and Republicans spent the last year doing to the places that belong to you.
They handed millions of acres of public land to corporations. They fired thousands of park rangers and forest workers. They sold sacred tribal land to foreign mining corporations. And they gutted the agencies that were supposed to hold them accountable and keep our air and water clean and healthy.
And every one of those decisions ended with higher costs for every American.
We're fighting back because you deserve better.
Trump is freaking out after a Republican judge stopped his vanity project in its tracks. After demolishing the historic East Wing of the White House, he started building a ballroom to hold his billionaire parties. Americans can’t afford rent or groceries but all of a sudden we can pony up $400 million dollars just to fuel his ego. We’re going to continue to conduct oversight to find out what they’re up to.
Linda Behnken has spent her career fishing in Sitka, Alaska and fighting for the communities that depend on healthy oceans. And she's in D.C. this week to advocate for the U.S.'s primary fishing law. We sat down to talk about what's working, what's breaking, and what Congress needs to do next.
Ocean warming is shifting fish populations. Toxic algal blooms are wiping out fisheries for years at a time. Fishing communities are collapsing. We need good science and real funding to keep up, but right now Republicans are cutting both.
The Magnuson-Stevens Act turns 50 this week. Reauthorizing and modernizing the law means giving fishing families the tools to stay ahead of a changing ocean instead of getting blindsided by it.
