Analyses of budgets and appropriations reveal that the government has given an average of $2.7 million a day in ____ for privately owned interests that use U.S. public lands for activities such as mining, fossil fuel extraction, logging, and livestock grazing.

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The activity described in the passage—privately owned interests using public lands for resource extraction and other activities—are often subsidized by the government in the form of tax breaks and other financial incentives. None of the other choices listed accurately describe the type of financial support described in the passage.

Analyses of Budgets and Appropriations Reveal That the Government Has