Without changes, the current Administration’s Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) budget proposal could mean slaughter for America’s wild horses and burros.
If fully approved in its original language, funding for the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Program would be cut by 25% and also remove the ban on lethal management options and commercial slaughter.
What does this mean? Simply put, up to 64,000 wild horses and burros currently in holding could be shipped to slaughter across U.S. borders.
And equally as horrible, the new language would allow unlimited transfers of wild horses to individuals, nonprofits, and even foreign governments with no safeguards in place. What does this mean? A “backdoor” to slaughter America’s treasured wild horses and burros would open.
TAKE ACTION
Contact Your Two U.S. Senators & House Representative to:
- Keep the longstanding wild horse and burro slaughter ban;
- Expand humane, on the range solutions like safe, proven fertility control; and
- End the long time, failed annual roundups-to -holding facilities system.
Locate your elected officials and their contact information via www.senate.gov and www.house.gov.
Left as is, the proposed budget enacts the project 2025 agenda, which tells the BLM to “dispose” of wild horses.