Jeb Bush says if he’s elected president, he’d try to move the Interior Department’s headquarters to the West.
He says it would do a better job of keeping in touch with the people it serves if its headquarters was in a place like Denver, Reno, Nev., or Salt Lake City.
The idea is part of a land- and resource-management plan the Republican presidential hopeful unveiled Wednesday in Reno.
Bush says it makes no sense for an agency that manages hundreds of millions of acres of federal land across the West to be based in Washington, D.C.
Bush attacked federal land management under President Barack Obama.
“This relentless overregulation has undermined the trust between Western communities and the federal government,” Bush said. “It must be restored. Washington, D.C., needs to acknowledge that people who live on the land in the West are the best stewards of the land.”
