Stop the destruction of the US Forest Service
Call BOTH of your Senators.
Call ONE of the Representatives. Note: only one of these Congressmembers represents you. Find out which one here.
Call Script
My name is __________. I am a constituent, and my zip code is _______. I am a member of Indivisible SF.
I’m calling to ask [the Congressperson] to hold hearings on the reorganization of the US Forest Service in contravention of Section 716 of the 2026 USDA appropriation and Section 421 of 2026 Interior appropriation. Please subpoena USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, and General Counsel Tyler Clarkson, if necessary to require them to appear.
Additional talking points:
Some other options for [the Congressperson] record as opposing the illegal USFS reorganization, call for hearings, and use every other available procedural tactic to slow and prevent Congressional proceedings until this happens.
Background
Why Is This Happening Now?
A major goal of the MAGA movement is to establish a “unitary executive” which invests all executive power in the presidency under article II of the Constitution and prohibits Congress from attaching conditions to its appropriations. As this explainer details, this theory would void “every appropriations rider, every reprogramming restriction, every spending condition Congress has ever attached to any bill. The power of the purse becomes a suggestion. The constitutional architecture that gives the Legislature control over federal spending completely collapses.” The separation of powers and checks and balances that the framers envisioned would disappear.
What We Can Do to Fight Back
If you are concerned, not just about the Forest Service, public lands, and science, but about the functioning of government as we have known it in our lifetimes, call your MoCs and demand they hold hearings on how the administration can ignore duly enacted provisions of law signed by the President. Ask them to go on the record supporting those investigations. Ask them to make a public statement in support of getting them started.
US Congress needs to hold hearings on how the US Department of Agriculture Secretary can implement a reorganization of the US Forest Service in direct contravention of legislation that both houses of Congress passed and the President signed into law; and how the General Counsel is allowed to declare a duly enacted law unconstitutional by internal memo and face no consequences. Please subpoena USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, and General Counsel Tyler Clarkson, if necessary to require them to appear.
References
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