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A video of Associate Deputy Secretary of the Interior Karen Budd‑Falen, recorded at a Congressional Western Caucus event, shows her openly discussing how she helped shape grazing policy that would benefit her own and her husband’s cattle operations—owned across Nevada and Wyoming and grazing on roughly 250,000 acres of federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Her remarks, which include plans to lease all unused BLM allotments and to relax limits on private grazing, have triggered calls from senators, the watchdog group Campaign for Accountability, and ethics experts for a congressional investigation into possible violations of conflict‑of‑interest and ethics rules, especially given that a prior Trump‑era ethics waiver barred her from working on grazing policy, a restriction she now appears to have overturned. The Interior Department maintains she is in compliance with legal and ethical standards, while critics argue her admissions constitute a clear financial conflict of interest.
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