Colorado’s 4th Congressional District Representative Lauren Boebert is going to serve as Vice Chair of the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations for the 119th United States Congress. The role has jurisdiction over four departments: The Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, and the Interior. She will serve alongside Chairman Bruce Westerman, the representative for Arkansas’ 4th Congressional District.
Congresswoman Boebert said she is looking forward to serving in this role overseeing four vital U.S. federal government departments. “Each of these have an impact on the lives of Coloradans, especially when it comes to instituting smart and responsible policies that help our agriculture community thrive in Weld County,” Boebert said. “We’ll have the ability to hold bureaucrats accountable and prevent the abusive government overreach we saw over the past four years, like when agencies tried to lock up our natural resources and stop our oil and gas producers from creating jobs in Colorado that will make America energy dominant.”
The subcommittee’s stated goals are to “expose waste, fraud, and abuse, and reform policies to ensure transparent, efficient, and effective use of taxpayer dollars.” President Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office to rename and restructure the United States Digital Service into the United States DOGE Service (USDS). DOGE stands for the Department of Government Efficiency, a department created to cut wasteful spending from federal government agencies that is expected to be directed by Elon Musk.
“My role will also include making these departments far more efficient, which falls in line with the mission of the [DOGE] initiative,” Boebert said. “As part of our need to cut wasteful spending, I’ve already introduced legislation to abolish the [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives], an unnecessary and unconstitutional agency that has attacked the Second Amendment rights of Americans for far too long. The American people have given President Trump and Republicans a mandate to start cutting wasteful spending and we’ll waste no time in following through.”
Boebert has also been a vocal supporter of delisting the gray wolf from the endangered species list to protect livestock on farms and ranches. She wrote a bill that originally passed the House in November 2023. President Biden attempted to get the gray wolf delisted in a federal appeals court, a move that would have reinstated a rule passed by President Trump’s first administration.
Now, four Colorado House Republicans — Boebert, Jeff Crank (CO-05), Gabe Evans (CO-08), and Jeff Hurd (CO-03) — released a joint statement condemning the release of Canadian wolves in Colorado as part of the wolf reintroduction plan passed by voters in 2020. “After years of slighting or outright ignoring Colorado farmers and ranchers with politically appointed anti-agricultural activists and ‘meat-free days,’ bureaucrats in Colorado have rushed through the importation of Canadian gray wolves and have set them loose in our state despite numerous protests and questions about the legality of this dysfunctional and chaotic approach,” the statement read.
