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Government inefficiency, I'm sure some people would pay good money to machine gun them from a helicopter.jerrab » 4 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ ////////Under Trump, wild horses sold by the government are turning up at slaughter auctions. They are still wearing the government's brand.
The New York Times published the investigation Thursday. Since Trump returned to office, the Bureau of Land Management has more than doubled its sales of federally protected wild horses. It sold about 3,700 in 2025 alone.
At one government sale event in Poteau, Oklahoma, the Times found at least 55 mustangs, identified by the BLM's own freeze brands, surfacing days later at livestock auctions in Kansas and Texas frequented by slaughter buyers.
The government spends roughly $3,000 to capture a wild horse, chasing it down by helicopter and trucking it to holding pens where some 60,000 already stand. Then, if a horse is past ten years old or goes unclaimed through three adoption listings, the law allows it to be sold outright. The moment it sells, the statute stops calling it a wild horse. Every protection Congress wrote falls away with the signature.