Celeste Maloy has represented Utah in Congress since November 2023. She sits on both the Appropriations and Natural Resources Committees — putting her in charge of the public lands and environment policies that shape life across the West. Here's what she's done with that seat.
Here are 3 things to know.
1. She tried to sell off Utah's public lands
Utah's public lands — its canyons, deserts, and wilderness — belong to all of us. Celeste Maloy tried to put a chunk of them up for sale.
She pushed to sell more than 10,000 acres of Utah public land near St. George, slipping it in as an amendment to Trump's budget bill to help pay for tax cuts. The idea drew bipartisan opposition and was eventually stripped out. She also sponsored the Ending Presidential Overreach on Public Lands Act, which would gut the 1906 Antiquities Act by ending presidents' power to create national monuments — a power presidents of both parties have used more than 160 times. It fits her record: a 3% score from the League of Conservation Voters in 2025.
2. She works for billionaires and big business
Look at who's funding Celeste Maloy. Her top donors include:
- AIPAC
- Berkshire Hathaway
- SpaceX
That's billionaires, big tech, and powerful interest groups — not the families of southern Utah. When those are the names on your donor list, it's worth asking whose interests really come first. You can dig into it at Who Bought My Rep.
3. She crusades against "waste" — after steering taxpayer money to her own nonprofit
Maloy is a member of the House DOGE Caucus. At a hearing, she told everyone to "ignore the hysteria" over the administration's cuts and said she'd "like to see agencies do less with less."
But here's the part she'd rather you didn't know. For someone crusading against "government waste," Maloy has her own history with taxpayer dollars. Before Congress, she successfully lobbied Utah lawmakers in 2019 to hand $300,000 in state money to a public-lands nonprofit she had helped launch and later led as president. Watchdog reporting found "scant evidence" of what the group actually accomplished — and it was dissolved in 2023, after she launched her run for Congress. Waste, it seems, is only a problem when someone else is spending the money.
What ties it all together
Sell off the public lands Utahns share, take the money from billionaires and big business, preach against "waste" while steering tax dollars to your own nonprofit. The theme running through all three is the gap between what Celeste Maloy says and who she actually works for. Utahns get to close that gap at the ballot box in 2026.
