Mike Lee preemptively drops 'big beautiful bill' provision to sell federal lands that riled GOP colleagues
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Utah Sen. Mike Lee withdraws public lands sale provision from the "big beautiful bill" after facing opposition from Republican colleagues ahead of July 4th deadline.
Lee, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said he pulled the provision after he failed to secure "safeguards to guarantee that these lands would be sold only to American families," and not to China or corporations. The Senate parliamentarian ruled on Monday that the provision's original language did not comply with strict rules related to what could be included in reconciliation legislation, with Lee's office resubmitting the provision with new language before pulling it altogether on Saturday evening.
Lee said he maintains his long-held position that the U.S. government owns too much land that is often mismanaged and leaves Americans, most notably in Western states, with higher tax burdens.
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