Visitation rose as much as 45% in March. May brought gridlock. Two senators asked Interior to bring the system back. McClintock's answer in June: people complaining about crowds just don't want 'those pesky other people' in the park.
For nearly two decades, a line buried in the farm bill has stopped the USDA from giving Fort Reno back to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. The 2026 version Frank Lucas helped write deletes the expiration date.
Three Gosar bills, three titles that say the opposite of what the text does: two "Protection Acts" that abolish national monuments, and an animal-safety act that strips Endangered Species Act protection from a wolf with 319 animals left.
His LASSO Act would tie Social Security's funding to how hard we extract from federal land. A conservative budget analyst checked his math and found he'd understated the shortfall by half — and that his bill covers 1.5% of it.
Conservation groups call H.R. 1897 the 'Extinction Act.' Westerman calls it 'restoring' the law. It would bar courts from reviewing decisions to strip a species of protection — and rename the Endangered Species Act.
A new investigation found Trump stripped protection from more land than every other president in history combined — five times over. Utah's three House Republicans put out a statement saying nothing was lost.
Eight days into Trump's second term, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna filed a bill to add his face to Mount Rushmore. Eighteen months later it has zero cosponsors, zero action, and geologists say it was never physically possible.
A $10 million grant to clear dead trees in the Superior National Forest was frozen by DOGE. Now those woods are burning — and the congressman who cheered DOGE on is pointing at Canada.
Utah ranks 10th of 50 on the measures we track — one of the healthiest states in the country. Its three House Republicans voted for a law KFF projects will leave 77,000 more Utahns uninsured anyway.
