The ESA deserves to be gutted, it demands gutting.
Environmentalism is Communism holding a baby bunny...
. If it were ever calculated the money that has been spent per species on this ridiculous act, people would just die.
Around here it's the squawfish - all 150 of them, upon which untold, and uncounted millions have been spent, water rights uprooted and stolen, farms and fisheries ruined, etc ad naseum.
Drought in CA ? The record snowfall we had in Colorado this year might have helped - but Interior squandered it on scouring out the river channels for the squawfish !
They said they would have enough water to do everything they wanted to and still satisfy existing ( and prior) users, and reservoir filling; but later it turned out they miscalculated, so our reservoirs, which should have filled, lost out on 20 % of our water.
The entire thing should be scrapped !