Bernhardt defends tweet urging House to take up lands bill

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The Interior Department yesterday dismissed criticism that Secretary David Bernhardt may have misusedtaxpayer funds to tout a massive public lands bill, calling the accusation "frivolous."The national nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) yesterday accused Bernhardtof violating prohibitions on using taxpayer funds for "propaganda and indirect lobbying" after he urged Houselawmakers to take up S. 3422, the "Great American Outdoors Act."President Trump "took bold action & provided unprecedented support for Congress to fix the aging infrastructure@NatlParkService and to permanently fund conservation projects. It's now time for the House to move thiscommonsense solution forward," Bernhardt wrote on his official Twitter account Wednesday, following theSenate's vote on the measure (Greenwire, June 17).