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The Values of the Administration

Or, the Fiscal Year 2026 President's budget request for Interior

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Members Day with House Natural Resources

Each Congress, committees set up a day when members of Congress can raise any issues within the committee's jurisdiction. Today it is House Natural Resources, which plays a huge role in Interior.

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City Nature Challenge from Interior's lands and waters

City Nature Challenge from Interior's lands and waters

This time last year, I was out in the American Southwest with family and friends, engaged in competition. We were finding plants and critters from the valley bottom along the Rio Grande to spruce-pine forests over 10,000' in elevation. The lands and waters of the Department of the

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Congress to claw back foreign aid funding?

May 5th. That's shaping up to be the deadline for the first of what may be many votes by Congress to take back funding it's already appropriated to federal agencies. The DC news organization Punchbowl is reporting that this package of rescissions will be focused on

Map of the US (Lower 48) with Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico inset; text showing select statistics about what Interior provides the Nation.

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America depends on the U.S. Department of the Interior every day

But Interior is under threat

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Next Interior is here for current and future generations of Americans

Next Interior supports the mission and the people of the Department of the Interior to benefit current and future generations of Americans. We stand for a strong U.S. Department of the Interior that is able to realize its full potential in serving the Nation. This means: * Elevating what Interior