Trump Administration's Wild Horse Policy

The Trump administration is rounding up America's wild horses with

helicopters, selling them for twenty-five dollars a

head,

and they're ending up in foreign slaughterhouses, carved into cuts of

meat.

The Mustang is freedom on four legs.

It runs across our truck commercials and beer ads because nothing says

America like a horse that answers to no one.

The White House wants them off the range, and it's paying contractors to

haul them away.

In March, a band of Nevada Mustangs went to a

livestock trader,

and the next night they were on double-decker cattle trucks headed

for the meat

plants across the Canadian line.

Loaded in the dark, shipped out of the country,

and nobody tracks

where they go.

If that sounds familiar, it's how Trump handles anything he

wants gone.

Mustangs have been here longer than the country.

They came over on Spanish ships five hundred years ago, broke

loose, and reshaped life on the plains.

Hunters ground them into dog food until a Nevada woman called Wild

Horse Annie shamed Congress into acting.

And in 1971, every senator and representative

voted to protect them as living symbols of the pioneer spirit of the

West.

Now, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum calls

that same

land America's balance sheet. Then The New

York Times came asking, and the price went to one hundred

twenty-five

dollars, and buyers now promise not to send a horse

to

slaughter recklessly or negligently.

Nobody checks.