An executive order from the Trump administration has halted more than $27 million worth of funding for some restoration projects on tribal lands in Arizona.
Two projects on the Navajo Nation and one on Hopi land were being directly funded by the Biden administration's Inflation Reduction Act.
More than $25 million was going toward restoring the Navajo’s Chinle Wash Watershed, which has been impacted by prolonged drought.
But among the executive orders signed by President Donald Trump on his first day in office was one that immediately paused the disbursement of funds from the Biden administration’s act.
That means more than $388 million worth of wildlife restoration projects across New Mexico, Utah, tribal lands and Colorado was paused, too.
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A Republican legislator is subpoenaing Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes to grill them in a public hearing about an alleged incident of pay-to-play. -
Data shows expansion of third-country deportations; migrants are sent to places they have no ties toThese so-called third country removal flights are a Trump-era practice that forces immigrants and asylum seekers to countries they have no ties to. Often, these deportees have been granted protective orders by a judge in the U.S. that prevent them from being sent back to their home countries because of specific dangers they’d face there. -
The city says the water purchase will secure 173,672 acre feet of water storage. -
President Donald J. Trump has floated yet another controversial name change, this time, involving New Mexico. Journalist Elvia Díaz, who lived formerly in the state and has covered the Southwest extensively, joined to share more on the subject. -
The Trump administration is facing a slew of major lawsuits over its cutback of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments to more than a quarter of their original size. A new poll shows even in conservative-leaning Utah, two-thirds of voters support their restoration.
