Rep. Don Young (R-AK) offered a way to solve homelessness in his colleagues’ congressional districts: wolves.
Young, speaking at a hearing of the House Natural Resources Committee on Thursday, made the comments while he was arguing that gray wolves should be taken off the endangered species list.
“How many of you have got wolves in your district? None. None. Not one,” Young said. He called the gray wolf a “predator.”
“We’ve got 79 congressmen sending you a letter, they haven’t got a damn wolf in their whole district,” Young said. “I’d like to introduce them in your district. If I introduced them in your district, you wouldn’t have a homeless problem anymore.”
According to The Washington Post, a Young spokesman said that his comments were only meant to support his argument that gray wolves are predators that “pose serious threats to wildlife management and their listing has damaging impacts to local communities.”
(H/t: The Huffington Post)
