President Donald Trump’s Interior Department intends to lawyer down, not up, even as its litigation risks start to climb.
The resulting tension could spell trouble if the Interior solicitor’s office ends up with the White House’s proposed 38 percent funding cut while an aggressive agenda all but invites more legal challenges.
“It could just be a disaster for the department,” former Interior Solicitor Robert Anderson, who ran the office during the Biden administration, cautioned in an interview. He added that “cutting the staff is only going to make it more difficult for them to do an adequate job that will withstand scrutiny from the inevitable lawsuits.”
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The escalating legal battles are already taking place.
