Thread by @FreeWildHorses

BREAKING: House Interior Approps bill is out! The good: The subcommittee rejected the President’s budget request for $15.3 mill in additional funding for the WHB Program. The bill continues to prohibit the slaughtering of #wildhorses and burros. #appropriation #freewildhorses

The bad: the draft bill would result in Congress handing the Bureau $42 mill in additional #taxpayer funds over 2019 budget levels with no hard requirements to prevent the agency from spending all the funds to #roundup and stockpile #wildhorses and to surgically sterilize them.

These are the first installments on the Bureau’s multi-billion dollar proposal to cull #wildhorse populations back to #extinction levels, a plan that will push the program off the fiscal cliff, inevitably resulting in the mass #slaughter of America’s nat'l icons. #stoptheroundups

We’ll continue to encourage the inclusion of lang requested in both chambers to rein in Bureau spending on cruel #roundups and surgical sterilization and require the implementation of scientifically-recommended fertility control to humanely manage #wild herds. #itworksifyouuseit

Finally, we're still waiting on the report lang to determine whether the lang (requiring BLM to spend 10% of its budget on humane fertility control and prohibiting the use of surgical sterilization of #wildhorses on the range) requested by various members of Congress was accepted