{"id":1995535,"date":"2023-08-09T15:07:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T19:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/furious-republicans-lay-into-biden-for-his-dictator-style-land-grab-in-arizona\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T15:13:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T19:13:33","slug":"furious-republicans-lay-into-biden-for-his-dictator-style-land-grab-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/furious-republicans-lay-into-biden-for-his-dictator-style-land-grab-in-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry GOP Criticizes Biden&#8217;s &#8216;Authoritarian Land Seizure&#8217; in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffurious-republicans-lay-into-biden-for-his-dictator-style-land-grab-in-arizona%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1995535&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Furious Republicans Lay Into Biden for His &#8216;Dictator-Style Land\u2064 Grab&#8217; in Arizona<\/h2>\n<p>It sounds so wonderful when\u2063 you hear\u2064 President Joe Biden\u2019s words as filtered through the mainstream media: Almost a million acres of public land in Arizona has been designated a national monument, \u200bpurportedly to preserve \u200csacred \u2062ground.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Quoth\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/08\/08\/politics\/joe-biden-national-monument-grand-canyon\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>: \u201cPresident Joe Biden\u2063 on Tuesday\u200c designated the fifth national monument of his presidency and unveiled new climate\u200c resilience funding for national parks during a visit to lands surrounding \u200bone of the seven natural wonders of the world, the Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I\u2019m \u2064proud to use my authority under the Antiquities Act to\u2064 protect almost one million\u200b acres of land around \u200cGrand Canyon National Park as a \u2062new national monument \u2013\u2064 to help right\u2062 the\u200d wrongs of the past and conserve this \u2064land \u200c\u2026 for all\u200c future generations,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/congress-set-heated-battle-following-recess-biden-wants-north-10-billion-sent-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden<\/a> told the media on Tuesday during a trip to \u2062the battleground state, \u200bwhere he proudly announced he \u2063was establishing \u200dthe Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National \u200bMonument.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday marks an historic step in preserving the majesty of this \u200bplace, first \u200camong\u2064 American\u200c landmarks, sacred to tribal \u200cnations, revered \u200cby every\u200d American. It speaks to the soul of our nations, reminds\u2063 them of who we are,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, Council on Environmental Quality chairwoman Brenda Mallory told the \u2062media that the \u201cland is sacred \u2063to tribal nations and indigenous peoples. Its sweeping \u200cplateaus and deep canyons share many of the features\u200d of the Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe land includes some of the most biodiverse habitats\u200c in the region, providing\u200c refuge for wildlife like bighorn sheep,\u200c bison, bald eagles and songbirds. And the area\u2019s meandering creeks and \u2062streams flow into the mighty \u2064Colorado River, a critical \u2062water \u200bsupply to millions of people \u200bacross the Southwest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful. Wonderful. Bravo. \u200cAnd amid all of this\u2062 talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ev-company-biden-admin-loves-declares-bankruptcy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden<\/a> designating\u200b this supremely hallowed land as a national monument, there was one \u200cteeny tiny\u200d detail that was mostly elided over by\u200c the major establishment media: The move, \u200bwhile it\u2062 may appease the president\u2019s far-left environmentalist\u2063 base,\u2064 will decimate the local mining and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ranchers-warn-disease-decimate-cattle-industry-bidens-open-border-blame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cattle industry<\/a>, to\u200b say nothing\u200d of the fact \u2062it could potentially cripple our access to a resource\u2062 critical to \u2063national \u200csecurity.<\/p>\n<p>As CNN\u200b noted, \u201cThe designation protects the area from potential\u2064 uranium mining. It also protects existing grazing \u200bpermits and leases, existing\u200c mining claims \u2063and will support area\u2062 hunting and\u2063 fishing, officials said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arizona\u200b State Senate \u200dRepublicans\u2062 said in a media\u2064 release on Tuesday that \u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-admin-sent-2-35-billion-taliban-since-disastrous-afghanistan-withdraw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden\u2019s<\/a> designation \u2062of the national monument was a\u2062 \u201cblatant government overreach of confiscating \u2063nearly\u2062 a million acres of land\u201d and putting it off-limits to miners \u2064and ranchers in a \u201cDictator-Style Land Grab.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/louisiana-republican-party-profoundly-disappointed-after-sen-cassidys-vote-in-impeachment-trial\/\" title=\"Louisiana Republican Party \u2018Profoundly Disappointed\u2019 After Sen. Cassidy\u2019s Vote in Impeachment Trial\">thinly veiled effort<\/a> to appease his radical environmental\u2064 base as he campaigns for re-election will \u200dhave dire consequences\u200c for\u200d all\u2064 Arizonans,\u201d Majority \u2064Leader Sonny Borrelli said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hundreds-protest-in-support-of-navalny-in-the-u-s\/\" title=\"Hundreds protest in support of Navalny in the U.S.\">strongly condemn<\/a> this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/furious-republicans-lay-into-biden-for-his-dictator-style-land-grab-in-arizona\/\" title=\"Angry GOP Criticizes Biden's 'Authoritarian Land Seizure' in Arizona\">dictator-style land grab<\/a> that will \u2064greatly hurt Mohave County and further \u2063limit private\u200d and state \u200cland resources needed\u2063 for our economic\u2064 viability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among those resources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/experts-iran-nukes-country-18x-enriched-uranium-obama-deal-allowed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uranium<\/a>, which can be mined \u2064from the area Biden designated. Cutting \u2064off mining of the radioactive metal could make America more dependent on its enemies, Sen. Frank Carroll said \u2062in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHalting \u200curanium mining in this region will only promote our country\u2019s dependence on communist China for the minerals\u2063 needed every day to support our energy supply,\u201d Carroll said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven the FBI has sounded the alarm that China is the greatest \u200dlong-term threat\u2062 to \u2064our \u2062nation\u2019s ideas, economic security and\u200b national security, \u2064yet President Biden is welcoming a greater reliance on this government\u200b with this action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other \u2062Senate Republicans, meanwhile, bemoaned the fact \u200cthat little\u2064 to no consultation was\u2064 done with \u2063the people who would be most affected by the decision to turn the land into a \u200cnational monument \u2014 the people of\u200c Mohave County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was \u2064entirely inefficient notice from the\u200b Biden administration to\u2063 the residents, business owners \u200dand elected officials of\u200b Mohave County,\u201d Sen. David \u2063Gowan said.\u2064 \u201cThis is not how government \u200cshould conduct\u2064 itself within Arizona or \u200dwithin the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe \u2064don\u2019t need the federal government\u2063 coming in and dictating to Arizonans how to protect Arizona. We\u2019ve been\u2064 doing a\u200c fine job of conserving our precious \u2063resources and \u200bwill\u200d continue to do so. This federal overreach is unacceptable and unconstitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And uranium mining \u2063won\u2019t be the \u200conly industry hit: \u201cThis move will have drastic implication \u2062for the livelihoods of our cattle ranchers \u2062who have relied on this land for generations,\u201d said Majority Whip Sine Kerr. \u201cThere are no \u200bbetter stewards of the land than our farmers and ranchers. The fact they\u2063 were left out of the discussion process is infuriating\u200c and just wrong.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Senate Republicans Strongly Oppose Biden\u2019s Dictator-Style Land\u2064 Grab<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SonnyBorrelli?\">@SonnyBorrelli<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SineKerr?\">@SineKerr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TJShope?\">@TJShope<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepFrankCarroll?\">@RepFrankCarroll<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZDavidGowan?\">@AZDavidGowan<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WNeVTYwjsj\">pic.twitter.com\/WNeVTYwjsj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AZSenateRepublicans (@AZSenateGOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZSenateGOP\/status\/1689003209619279873?\">August 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t just state Senate Republicans who were irate about the decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/navajo-nation-slams-biden-oil-drilling-ban-says-white-house-violated-tribal-sovereignty\/\" title=\"Navajo Nation Slams Biden Oil Drilling Ban, Says White House Violated \u2018Tribal Sovereignty\u2019\">appease radical environmentalists<\/a> at the expense of Arizonans and American national security.<\/p>\n<p>Kari Lake \u2014 the GOP candidate for Arizona governor during the \u20622022 election\u2063 cycle and a potential contender \u2062for Democrat Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-report-showcases-just-tense-things-gotten-sinema-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyrsten Sinema\u2019s<\/a> \u2063 seat\u200c in 2024 \u2014 tweeted that Biden \u201cjust stole \u200c917,000 acres of\u2062 our land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of\u200d our broken \u200celections: we don\u2019t have a Governor or an \u2062Attorney General willing to fight \u2063back against\u200d this theft,\u201d she said. \u201cArizona has surrendered its state\u200c sovereignty to the federal\u2063 government.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden?\">@JoeBiden<\/a> just stole 917,000 acres of our land.<\/p>\n<p>Because of\u2062 our broken elections:\u2063 we don\u2019t have a\u200b Governor or an Attorney General willing to fight\u200b back against this theft.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona has surrendered its \u2064state sovereignty to the\u200d federal government.<\/p>\n<p>When you sacrifice a\u200c hill,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mjLcNhCpwD\">https:\/\/t.co\/mjLcNhCpwD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kari Lake (@KariLake) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KariLake\/status\/1689058115071905792?\">August 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen you sacrifice a\u200c hill, they\u2019ll take a canyon,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, perhaps the\u2064 upshot \u200dof \u2064this\u2062 is that the people \u2062of Arizona \u2064will see \u200djust how much\u2062 the Biden administration cares about the\u2063 ordinary residents \u200cof the\u2064 state. That could be a wake-up call\u2064 for voters who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/arizona-sheriff-thanks-biden-mexican-smugglers-now-high-speed-roads-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handed Arizona to Biden<\/a> in\u200d 2020.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s little\u200c solace, however, \u200dfor those on the rotten \u2063end of \u2063a\u2063 \u201cdictator-style land\u2064 grab.\u201d It sounds so great when you hear \u2062President Biden talk about it, particularly when viewed through \u2062the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/review-belfast\/\" title=\"REVIEW: \u2018Belfast\u2019\">rose-colored glasses<\/a> of the mainstream \u2062media. The true\u200c impact of the situation, however, is an altogether different beast than the president is describing.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/furious-republicans-lay-biden-dictator-style-land-grab-arizona\/\">Furious Republicans Lay Into Biden for His &#8216;Dictator-Style Land Grab&#8217; in \u2062Arizona<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden designated a national monument in Arizona, preserving nearly a million acres of public land. 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