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Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican of Utah, proposed a provision in Saturday night’s A Large Bill Act that will allow the sale of federal land development after widespread anger among his conservative colleagues.
“I have spent a lot of time listening to community members, local leaders and stakeholders nationwide over the past few weeks. Despite the lot of misinformation – in some cases, a thorough lie – many people have raised sincere concerns about my bills.”
Lee, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said he proposed the provision after failing to obtain “safeguards to ensure that these lands are sold only to American families” rather than China or companies. Senate members ruled Monday that the original language of the provision did not meet the strict rules related to the rules that might be included in the settlement legislation, which Lee’s office resubmitted in the new language before pulling it completely Saturday night.
Lee said he insisted on a long-standing position that the U.S. government owns too much land that is often not strong, making Americans, most notably in Western states, more tax burdens.
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Senator Mike Lee speaks at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s marking hearing on November 30, 2023. (Bill Clark/Getty Image)
“I continue to believe that the federal government owns too much land – the land is inappropriate, and in many cases the next generation is destroyed,” Lee wrote in his post. “Under the Democratic president, large chunks of the West are locked in the people living there, there is no meaningful recourse.”
Lee included sales tasks for millions of acres of federal land in the draft tax relief package earlier this month. He took the lead in procedural votes because both Republican lawmakers of Chambers publicly condemned the provision and said they would vote against the bill if it was included.
“We have the right to vote,” Montana Sen. Steve Daines said in Lee’s rule Thursday. “We’re ready.”
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Speaker Mike Johnson passed a bill in the U.S. Capitol on May 22, 2025, addressing the media. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“I agree with my colleagues that the federal government has mismanaged federal lands for decades. But I don’t agree with their solution. The solution is not to sell public lands. The solution is better management. Let’s send legislation to POTUS desk to improve management and access. I remain a no on the sentate reconciliation bill,” Montana Rep. Ryan Zinke posted to X last week ahead of Lee pulling the provision.Zinke served as Donald Trump’s Interior Secretary during his first administration.
President Donald Trump is rallying Republican lawmakers to pass a Beautiful Act. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Idaho Republican Senator Jim Risch said in Lee that I am honored to make the people of Idaho clear—we do not support selling public land to the highest bidder. I am honored to have removed this provision from a huge beauty bill. ”
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Sunrise Light climbed the dome of the U.S. Capitol on January 2, 2025. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
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Legislators will get the legislation on July 4 deadline, which will advance Trump’s agenda on taxes, immigration, energy, defense and national debt and hand it over to the president’s table. After hours of negotiations, Senate Republicans successfully implemented legislation late Saturday.
Alex Miller and Elizabeth Elkind of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
