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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Jun 20, 2025, 01:44 PM Jun 20

Conservatives Turn On GOP Senator Over Plan To Sell Off Millions Of Acres Of Public Land

People across the political spectrum hope Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) makes like a tree and leaves national forests — and other federally owned land — alone.

Last week, the Lee-led Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee released a draft proposal, intended for inclusion in the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill,” that would mandate the sale of between 2.2 million and 3.3 million acres of public land owned by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service in the American West.

Lee has framed the proposal as a means to increase affordable housing, and emphasized that it excludes national parks, national monuments, and designated wilderness areas from being sold.

Critics have expressed skepticism that the bill would do much to mitigate the housing crisis, contending that it would only result in the public being barred from land they now enjoy.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/conservatives-turn-gop-senator-over-231801550.html

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Conservatives Turn On GOP Senator Over Plan To Sell Off Millions Of Acres Of Public Land (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 20 OP
Shitstain MAGA would sell their own mothers if they thought they could get the fuck away with it. SoFlaBro Jun 20 #1
Mike Lee needs to eff himself with an electric cattle prod. n/t valleyrogue Jun 20 #2
We know for sure that Mike Lee is a small little man Walleye Jun 20 #3
This bill is garbage and needs to be discussed 24/7 newdeal2 Jun 20 #4

newdeal2

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4. This bill is garbage and needs to be discussed 24/7
Fri Jun 20, 2025, 02:22 PM
Jun 20

I fear the Iran war is just a distraction to push this through in secrecy.

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