Trump’s BLM nominee, Cortez Masto find common ground on land sales

By: Jeniffer Solis

Outlets: Nevada Current

Published: February 26, 2026

Words: 943

Last Updated: 2 weeks ago

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President Donald Trump’s pick to head the Bureau of Land Management faced multiple rounds of questioning during a confirmation hearing Wednesday over his long record of pushing the sale of public lands.

During the hearing, senators on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee repeatedly asked Steve Pearce — a former seven-term Republican congressman from New Mexico — to clarify whether he disavowed his previous statements urging for the “disposal of some of the federal government’s …

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