https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/push-to-weaken-us-endangered-species-act-runs-into-roadblocks/

America’s Endangered Species Act—which protects more than 2,000 plant, animal and insect species at risk of extinction—is under renewed attack from Republican politicians. But policy experts say that their efforts face an uphill battle, even though Republicans control the White House and both chambers of Congress.

On 19 July, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) proposed policy changes that would make it easier to delist species and harder to add new ones, among other things. And in recent weeks, legislators in the US House of Representatives have gone further by introducing around 12 bills aimed at altering the law itself.