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Sen. Mike Lee Proposes Potential Sale of Millions of Acres of Public Lands Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) is defending his proposal to include the potential sale or transfer of some public lands in the GOP’s budget reconciliation bill currently being negotiated in the U.S. Senate. Lee is the chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and has been on record for some time as a supporter of making public land under federal stewardship available for housing projects. According to an updated draft released by Lee’s committee, the Senator’s proposal would instruct the secretaries of Agriculture and Interior to “select for disposal” between 0.5 and 0.75 percent of land currently held by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management across 11 eligible states. Some argue that *all* federally owned land must remain in federal hands—in perpetuity Why not set aside a fraction of one percent of that land for to make homes more affordable? https://t.co/7ICXVo1mm2 — Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) June 20, 2025 Lee’s proposal has generated outraged among certain environmentalist groups, including the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA) which claims that selling public lands “threatens public access, undermines responsible land management, puts environmental values, cultural resources, and endangered species at risk along with clean drinking water for 60 million Americans and betrays the public’s trust.” Lee pushed back against those claims last week on Glenn
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