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Mike Lee Is Back Again To Sell Your Lands

Mike Lee rewrote his land sale bill. It’s still stealing over a million acres of your land.

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Jun 26, 2025
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Whiplash anyone?

Mike Lee, a man so consumed by his hatred for public lands he tried to sell them out from under the American people without so much as a committee vote, is back with a slightly smaller dagger. And his “new” proposal? It’s the same rancid scheme, sprayed with Febreze. A tactical retreat, not a change of heart. The goal is still the same: liquidate the American landscape and call it reform.

Gone is the Forest Service land. But his revised plan still forces the Bureau of Land Management to auction off up to 1.2 million acres of public land in 11 Western states. That’s your land. And this time, he’s got a shiny new excuse: housing.

This isn’t about homes for working families. This is about cracking open the vault for developers, speculators, and anyone eager to turn sagebrush into subdivisions.

Lee wants you to believe this is reasonable now. That it’s “targeted.” That he’s “listening.” But here’s the truth:

This is still the largest proposed public land sell-off in modern U.…

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