Cliven Bundy, the right-wing anti-government rancher best known for an armed standoff with federal and state officials over the use of public land, could metaphorically have a Texas-sized republic named after him if two extremist Republican congressmen get their way.
Conservative western-state Republicans snuck a provision into an otherwise routine funding bill that would prevent President Obama and future presidents from designating nearly 250,000 square miles of federally owned land across the country as national monuments. This attempt is just another in a long line by extreme, right-wing ideologues who accuse the Obama administration of "federal overreach" of public lands. It's absolutely unconscionable that right-wing extremists would play politics instead of protecting such important American treasures.
It's urgent that we act now and pressure Congress to remove this provision, or any other legislation, that would jeopardize the president's ability to permanently protect federal land.
