🧵 The Trump administration has apparently been scheming for months to steal taxpayer dollars from a bipartisan commission for Trump’s own Freedom 250 LLC.

Trump is spending your taxpayer dollars on vanity projects for himself instead of making lives better for working people. Proud to join @naturalresources.bsky.social in calling for a hearing about the waste of taxpayer spending on the ballroom, arch, and other dumb projects.

Happy Earth Day! Trump and Republicans spent the last year selling off your public lands, your clean air, and your clean water to billionaires and Big Oil. And every one of those decisions ended with higher costs for you. We're fighting back because you deserve better.

The Trump administration is gutting the U.S. Forest Service. Closing research stations and offices and relocating families to Utah with no plan. And they're doing it heading into fire season after Trump's DOGE already fired workers. You can count on me to fight this in D.C.

Tell me again how caring about this planet is radical. Clean air will win. Clean water will win. Our public lands will win. Science will win. Kindness will win. Hope will win. We will win.

This is terrible and unnecessary. Along with @naturalresources.bsky.social I will pursue every legislative avenue to reverse this decision.

Trump is doing Big Oil’s bidding yet again – and this time he's calling it "national security." His minions voted to let oil and gas companies ignore protections for endangered species when they drill in the Gulf of Mexico. And Gulf communities are going to pay the price for this corruption.

Trump’s ‘God Squad’ exempts Gulf oil drilling from Endangered Species Act requirements

Trump administration officials on Tuesday exempted drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from complying with Endangered Species Act (ESA) requirements. The administration took the extraordinary step of co…

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BREAKING: The Trump administration just voted to let Big Oil ignore every endangered species protection in the Gulf of Mexico. In a single meeting, Trump's corrupt cabinet gave oil companies a free pass to kill endangered whales & sea turtles so they can drill without limits. 🧵

Donald Trump Jr. bought into a company. Three months later, his dad's Pentagon handed them $620 million in taxpayer dollars. Democrats forced a vote to subpoena Don Jr. today to come clean about this shady deal. But Republicans blocked it and even shut down the hearing to protect him.

We banned lead from gasoline. From paint. From children's toys. Republicans just voted to keep it in our wildlife refuges, killing bald eagles and over 130 species, because the gun lobby told them to. @rephuffman.bsky.social: Our public lands belong to the American people, not the NRA.

BREAKING: The Trump administration approved BP's $5 billion ultra-deepwater drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico. This is the same company responsible for the Deepwater Horizon disaster that killed 11 workers and dumped over 3 million barrels of oil into the Gulf. 🧵

Unbelievable. Trump started an illegal war with Iran that's driving up gas prices. Now he's using that crisis to ram through an offshore pipeline California already rejected. Yet another massive handout for his Big Oil buddies.

Americans are struggling to afford groceries and rent while Trump wants to build a golden vanity arch taller than the Lincoln Memorial.

RM @rephuffman.bsky.social: "This is not Pyongyang. We have laws, policies and procedures. That's how… “ 1/

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New: Democrats asked a federal court to block Trump's 250-ft arch. Under law, Congress must approve certain monuments in DC. “This is a straightforward issue of who’s in charge,” @SenAngusKing said. They also mocked the "vanity" project. “This is not Pyongyang,” @RepHuffman told me.

Americans are already drowning in bills. Trump wants to make that even worse, locking us into dirtier air, higher energy costs, and billions in new medical expenses. All so a handful of Big Oil CEOs who funded his campaign keep getting richer off your paycheck.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 6mo ago

🚨 BREAKING: Trump has repealed the EPA’s authority to regulate climate pollution, terminating the 2009 “endangerment finding,” which determined that greenhouse gases are dangerous to public health under the Clean Air Act and underpinned limits on emissions from power plants, oil & gas, and vehicles.

🚨 Republicans just gave Big Tech a MASSIVE handout. @rephuffman.bsky.social: Meta and Amazon want to run cables through our Marine Sanctuaries for free, trample over all the marine life, and silence communities who depend on these waters. And Republicans are all too willing to please.

Tribal citizens are being grabbed off the streets by Trump's masked ICE agents. Held for days or weeks while their family has no idea where they are. A Republican's response? "There will be mistakes." @rephuffman.bsky.social wasn't having it 👇

Removing a sign doesn't change what happened. It tells us what you're afraid people will learn. Authoritarian governments that erased inconvenient history used to be something we fought against abroad. But now, the Trump administration is making sure we become one.

.@rephuffman.bsky.social: "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."

.@fernandez.house.gov: "Is this an American mining company? It's not. It's a Chilean company. And where does that copper end up? On a boat to China."

Our national parks. Our public lands. Our coastlines. Our clean air and water. Our clean energy future. A year into Trump's second term and this corrupt Republican Congress, all of it is under attack, all so billionaires and Big Oil can get even richer.

🔥 @fernandez.house.gov: "Trump says it's 'psychologically important' for HIM to own Greenland. Not for the nation—for him. And he won't rule out using nuclear force to get it. Congress can stop this."

House Republicans finally finished turning the U.S. Congress into the American Duma. Two bills passed unanimously — every Republican voted yes — and today, they killed their own bills because Trump threw a tantrum. Doormats. Every single one of them. @rephuffman.bsky.social on the floor 👇

Compensation for wildland firefighters dying from exposure is long overdue. But it's not enough to pay families after the damage is done. We need masks, research, and real protections on the frontlines. Democrats will keep fighting until these heroes get the care they deserve.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 8mo ago

Wildfire fighters will be eligible for a payment of nearly $450,000 and college tuition for their family if they die or become debilitated from a smoke-related cancer, under a law signed by President Trump on Thursday.

House Republicans used their final day to pass handouts to polluters, foreign mining companies, and the NRA. Everyone else? A lump of coal.

What if you couldn't stop a pipeline, even after proving it would poison your water? Republicans named this bill the "SPEED Act" and they are absolutely counting on you not reading it. Here's what they’re not telling you (a 🧵)

I was just at a @naturalresources.bsky.social hearing on my bill that identifies best practices for efficient and environmentally responsible geothermal permitting. Attacks on clean energy are costing Americans, killing hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs, and intensifying the climate crisis.

GOP priorities: ✅ Investigate nonprofits for winning lawsuits fair and square to protect public lands. ✅ Ignore American oil companies colluding with foreign cartels to jack up gas prices. Make it make sense.

Glorifying himself. This is what dictators do.

SFGATE@sfgate.com · 8mo ago

Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.

On Native American Heritage Day, Democrats are fighting to uplift Native voices, work to advance their priorities, and defend tribal sovereignty against those who seek to undermine it. We will never stop standing with Tribal nations.

President Trump is actively making your life more expensive. Americans need cheaper energy and lower costs. But all he's done is wage a war on clean energy that would actually make that happen. @rephuffman.bsky.social: "I've been taking notes... Just remember, you started it."