Martin Heinrich: “I am pleased that the budget focuses on providing tools to producers in rural communities to address the climate crisis.”

We need to make the Historic Preservation Fund permanent. We need to adequately resource the fund as a whole. And we especially need to make sure that we're dedicating more of those funds to Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, so that…

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.

Reversing these common-sense standards will waste publicly owned natural gas, cost the American people tens of millions in foregone revenue, and increase pollution on our public lands.

The government’s expanded use of these new financial tools has raised concerns that we request the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) examine, including whether and how the federal government is assessing financial risks…