Jack,

The Trump Administration’s Fiscal Year (FY) 26 budget proposal could mean slaughter for wild horses.

If enacted fully, it would cut funding for the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Program by 25% and remove the ban on lethal management and commerical slaughter.

This means up to 64,000 wild horses and burros currently in holding could be shipped to slaughter across U.S. borders.

Even worse, new language would allow unlimited transfers of wild horses to individuals, nonprofits, and even foreign governments with no safeguards in place. This would open a backdoor to slaughter of our iconic wild herds.

But, Jack, it’s not too late. Now, the fight turns to Congress as it considers final appropriations legislation to fund the federal government in FY26. 

This means we have a chance to ensure that the longstanding prohibition on wild horse slaughter makes it into the final bill. But your representatives and senators need to hear from you. Call on your members of Congress right now to ensure they advocate for the conservation of wild horses, not their slaughter. 

At AWHC, we know there’s a better way. We’re calling on Congress to:

• Maintain the longstanding wild horse slaughter ban

• Expand humane, in-the-wild solutions like fertility control

• End the failed roundup-and-holding system

The proposed budget carries out the Project 2025 agenda, which calls for the BLM to “dispose” of wild horses, completely reversing the Trump Administration’s previous 2019 rejection of lethal management.

We’ve been here before and together, through the power of your advocacy, we kept slaughter off the table. We can do that again. Take action now and save our wild herds from the brutal fate of slaughter.

We’re already fighting back and we won’t stop. Thank you for standing with us,

Team AWHC