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StarryNite

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15. The Republicans want to kill everything including America's wild horses and burros.
Thu Jun 5, 2025, 01:09 PM
Jun 5

Which by the way is what Project 2025 calls for. And most of the horses and burros removed from our public lands by the BLM and Forest Service are being removed not because of overpopulation but to appease special interest groups like public lands ranchers. Ranchers who happen to cost the tax payer millions of dollars a year in subsidies and many are wealthy like the Koch bros.

Trump budget could open the door to selling wild horses for slaughter
By Scott Streater | 06/03/2025 01:40 PM EDT

The fiscal 2026 proposal omits language prohibiting the Bureau of Land Management from selling or transferring any of the federally protected animals to places where they could be slaughtered.

President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget request proposes addressing the skyrocketing costs of wild horse and burro management by striking a provision designed to protect them.

The Bureau of Land Management budget request, details of which were released by the White House late Friday, would dramatically cut funding for the wild horse and burro program — and remove previous safeguards mandated by Congress that forbid the bureau from selling or transferring any of the federally protected animals to places where they could be slaughtered.


https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-budget-could-open-the-door-to-selling-wild-horses-for-slaughter/

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Good for Schumer. sop Jun 5 #1
Well Chuck, the USA does lead the world in ways to kill people. twodogsbarking Jun 5 #2
Bullshit. ancianita Jun 5 #9
You read a lot into what I wrote. twodogsbarking Jun 5 #12
Okay. I'll take your word for it. ancianita Jun 5 #13
If people would just stop killing other people so much I might feel better. twodogsbarking Jun 5 #14
I hear you. You should feel better because of the lower numbers, though. ancianita Jun 5 #18
My shot was at the USA, not Chuck. He has to deal with the system and the, you know, morons. twodogsbarking Jun 5 #19
Didn't come off like that, but I'll accept your intended meaning. ancianita Jun 5 #20
Good for him. sheshe2 Jun 5 #3
Seems appropriate. greatauntoftriplets Jun 5 #4
That's the proper way to rub their noses in it! 70sEraVet Jun 5 #5
And this time, the Republicans do it without any "death panels" Justice matters. Jun 5 #6
Can't we adopt decent messaging? SCantiGOP Jun 5 #7
Big, beautiful BULLs..t BattleRow Jun 5 #11
"Well, We're All Going to Die Republican Spending Bill" ffr Jun 5 #8
Definitely better! Chuck's sarcasm reveals republican evil : always add "Republican" to republican bill titles. ancianita Jun 5 #10
The Republicans want to kill everything including America's wild horses and burros. StarryNite Jun 5 #15
I had not heard that yet Bayard Jun 5 #21
The BLM planned on killing horses in 3 federally protected herds... StarryNite Jun 5 #22
Add this to all the people they're trying to kill..... Bayard Jun 5 #24
The repubs/MAGAts are the death squad of people, animals, and the Earth. StarryNite Jun 5 #25
Well done, Senator Schumer! Mysterian Jun 5 #16
Good. We need to keep doing this. Aristus Jun 5 #17
Nice going, Chuck Schumer. Paladin Jun 5 #23
That is stealing the ball for a slam dunk! bucolic_frolic Jun 5 #26
Alan Grayson had that markie Jun 5 #27
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