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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.


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