Jeff Merkley: ““President Trump continues to sell access and influence to the highest bidders. Without action, we stamp a Congressional…”

At a time when energy prices are skyrocketing, the Administration is hell-bent on political retribution instead of working to bring down costs for millions of Americans.

Our bipartisan bill supports more prescribed fire on the landscape—an essential forest management activity—while giving our communities the resources to plan and prepare for smoke events.

This is a five-alarm fire. It’s wrong under every moral code.

Once an Administration begins punishing Americans for how they vote, the threat extends far beyond these projects: no state, community, business, or worker can trust that the federal government will apply the law fairly.