This little-known official may be the biggest beneficiary of Trump’s Venezuela attack
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Rachel Maddow breaks down some of the biggest news stories that may have gone unnoticed after Trump launched an attack on Venezuela.

There’s a good case to be made that the single biggest winner in this whole situation is a person named Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 official at the Interior Department, the same agency she served in during Trump’s first term.

Her family owns a ranch in Nevada. Nearby, a company wanted to build a huge lithium mine. But it turns out lithium mines take a ton of water. So in 2018, Budd-Falen’s husband sold the water rights from their ranch to the mining company for $3.5 million.