Martin Heinrich: “I don't know how to characterize the draft that we've seen as anything other than complete hostility to the…”

These equity acquisitions also create potential conflicts of interest for federal agencies because a significant portion of the planned mining operations are located on federal lands.

Our national parks and public lands are part of our shared identity.

Instead of working to address these maintenance needs and keep visitors safe and our parks accessible, the administration is making hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars available for the President’s vanity projects. That’s bullshit.

We're very thick in the negotiations right now, and whether or not we could land something before August, I'm not going to speculate.