GOP Senator Blocks All Trump Nominees Over Wetlands

Cramer said he was "stunned" by the decision. "The blind defense of a Biden rule favored by environmental extremists at the expense of farmers confounds me, particularly at a time when our ag producers are hurting so badly," he said, citing rising fuel and fertilizer costs tied to limited traffic in the Strait of Hormuz and lost international markets.

He also said he suspects the timing. The decision came, he said, "immediately after I agreed to vote for a wealth manager to be the Assistant Secretary of Interior that oversees these issues" — a nominee who Cramer said admitted knowing nothing about waterfowl easements in North Dakota. "I was fooled into believing as a business person he was going reform regulations, not support Biden's," Cramer said.

Ducks Unlimited said on X that the policy helps "safeguard some of North America's most important waterfowl habitats."

Republican Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas welcomed the administration's decision to leave the rule alone, thanking Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on X "for listening to our concerns—and those of countless Arkansans who value conservation."

The Fish and Wildlife Service did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation's request for comment.