Reno, Nev. • Two House committee chairmen are trying to put the brakes on money for a new Trump administration proposal to accelerate the capture of 130,000 wild horses across the West over the next 10 years.
Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nevada, whose high-desert state is home to about half the mustangs, also is among the bipartisan group of lawmakers sounding alarms about the provision in an Interior Department spending bill being readied for final congressional action.
They say it could result in the "most sweeping changes" in federal protections for mustangs and burros since President Richard Nixon signed them into law nearly a half century ago.