1. United States
2. Ariz.
3. Letter

Vote no on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026. BAAJA would strip away the environmental review requirements under NEPA, the Clean Water Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act that currently give communities a fighting chance to challenge harmful projects. With a Senate vote approaching, there is no time to pretend this bill is something it is not. This administration has already steered $1.6 billion in federal financing to a Kazakh tungsten mine partly owned by the president's sons. BAAJA would make that kind of corrupt deal faster, easier, and nearly impossible to reverse. The bill's "certainty" provisions would lock in Trump-era permits so tightly that the next administration could not undo them, and courts would be expressly barred from issuing injunctions in NEPA and NHPA cases, even when agencies break the law. The transmission provisions in this bill are genuinely useful, but they do not come close to offsetting what BAAJA hands this president. Petrochemical plants in communities already facing unconscionable cancer rates, sacred Tribal lands, the Boundary Waters, Chaco Canyon: all of it becomes fair game with no meaningful legal recourse. Vote no.