Ryan Zinke: “I looked at the budget. I am not happy. We are going to fight about it. I think I am going to win at the end of the day.”

Zinke is delivering on the promise he made to make public lands a priority.

I remind the subcommittee that its trust and treaty obligations exist irrespective of any self-imposed budgeting caps.

I urge this subcommittee to support significantly increased funding for Indian Country, especially chronically underfunded tribal environmental resiliency programs.

We’ve kicked the can long enough.