President Trump told a boisterous crowd at a campaign rally in Colorado yesterday that moving the Bureau of Land Management's headquarters out West is part of his "historic regulatory reduction campaign" aimed at "ending the tyranny of Washington bureaucrats."
"We repealed the ridiculous Waters of the United States rule, which was basically taking away your property," Trump said during the rally in Colorado Springs, Colo. "And we are taking the Bureau of Land Management out of Washington, D.C.; we've just done it."
Trump — with Interior Secretary David Bernhardt nearby and flanked by Colorado Republican Reps. Ken Buck, Doug Lamborn and Scott Tipton — told the crowd of supporters that moving BLM headquarters to Grand Junction, Colo., is justified "because we believe that the people who manage the lands of the great American West should live right here in the great American West."
BLM's move played a small part in Trump's two-hour speech, which was broadcast live by C-SPAN. The president is on a three-state campaign rally tour that wraps up today in Las Vegas — a day before Nevada's Democratic caucus.
But his comments were noteworthy because Trump has rarely, if ever, publicly discussed his administration's reasoning behind relocating BLM's headquarters to Colorado, along with more than 200 other D.C.-based positions to state offices across the West.
Trump's comments came as congressional Democrats have ramped up scrutiny of the BLM move...
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