DOGE—the Department of Government Efficiency—controls your public lands now. I wish I was kidding, but on April 17th, supposed Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum handed Elon Musk the entirety of America's accumulated public lands. That includes national parks, Bureau of Land Management, and Forestry lands, as well as the fates of hundreds of thousands of federal employees.
And to top it off, while Burgum gave Musk total control—one without an expiration date which I'll get to in a moment—Musk isn't the one overseeing the overhaul of our public lands. No, that'll be handled by DOGE's Assistant Secretary of Policy Management and Budget, Tyler Hassen. Want to guess what Hassen's other job is?
Yep, you guessed it, Greenpeace officer. HA, just kidding, he's the CEO of Basin Energies, an oil conglomerate. Yeah, he's an oil executive who's in charge of your public lands as the administration and specifically the Department of the Interior, headed by Burgum, has been beating the war drum of selling your public lands to extractive industries.
