Last week, the Biden administration attempted its latest vote grab disguised as a land grab. The president’s latest environmental policy is antithetical to what people want and need — secure, reliable energy — but integral to what Joe Biden requires: votes. It’s part and parcel of Biden’s cash-and-carry strategy to retain the White House.

The new rule, issued by the Department of the Interior on April 18, will affect 250 million acres of land, roughly a tenth of the U.S. land mass. The rule directs the Bureau of Land Management to consider, for the first time, landscape health when determining the use of public lands. It also establishes land restoration and mitigation leases on public lands and changes the practices for designating areas of critical environmental concern. The rule’s three parts have one purpose: limiting private sector use of public lands, especially fossil fuel production.