Senate and GOP face pushback over public land sales
TL;DR
The Senate removed a controversial provision from a major bill that would have allowed the sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands, after opposition from both parties and concerns over foreign interests, with some lawmakers celebrating the preservation of public lands.
- Senate removes provision that would sell off public lands from megabill The Hill
- Lee pulls federal land sales from megabill Politico
- Mike Lee’s Plan to Sell Public Lands Faces MAGA Pushback The New York Times
- Public Land Sales Return in Scaled-Back Form in Trump Tax Bill Bloomberg
- GOP plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands is found to violate Senate rules AP News
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