Overview
- The House approved the Pet and Livestock Protection Act 211-204, with five Democrats backing it and four Republicans opposed.
- The bill directs the Interior secretary to reissue the 2020 delisting rule—vacated by a federal court in 2022—and bars any court review of that action.
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service data show the change would lift ESA safeguards from more than 4,500 wolves in the western Great Lakes and nearly 2,800 across seven western states.
- A Senate companion from Sen. Ron Johnson is pending, and the bill’s path is uncertain given the chamber’s 60-vote threshold.
- Ranching groups and Republican sponsors say states need authority to protect livestock, while Democrats, tribes and environmental advocates warn delisting could spur hunts like Wisconsin’s 2021 season that killed 218 wolves in less than three days.