June 13, 2025

Wyden Statement on Trump Administration Decision to Pull out of the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement

Oregon senator: “Donald Trump proves yet again his irrational preference for litigation and mindless destruction of actual achievements like this settlement agreement”

Washington, D.C. –U.S. Senator Ron Wyden today issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s decision this week to pull out of the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement.

“Donald Trump proves yet again his irrational preference for litigation and mindless destruction of actual achievements like this settlement agreement,” said Wyden a senior member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. “His approach will make life more difficult for businesses and families by upending meaningful progress to meet regional energy production, water resources, and transportation needs while recovering a river and its salmon key to our part of the country. The states of Oregon and Washington as well as Tribes worked too hard and long to reach this agreement to have it upended so casually from 3,000 miles away.”