Sen. Mike Lee, who chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, included a mandate for the sales in a draft provision of the GOP’s sweeping tax cut package released Wednesday.

When a GOP senator proposed using federal land for affordable housing, right-wing forces revolted to protect what they see as ...

Lee introduced a now-removed amendment to Trump’s policy megabill that mandated the sale of up to 3 million acres. It did ...

Once a rallying cry, now a reality. A controversial proposal to require the sale of a fraction of a percent of federally owned public lands isn’t moving forward. U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican ...

Senator Mike Lee retracts a proposal to sell 3.3 million acres of federal land due to backlash and budget constraints.

Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee withdrew his controversial federal land sale provision from the “big beautiful” tax bill after ...

The provision would have forced the sale of thousands of acres of federal public land across Arizona and other Western states ...

Efforts to sell public lands fail, but lawmakers and advocates remain concerned about the environmental impact of the “big ...

People shouldn’t expect to see a plan to sell federal public lands brought back to Congress anytime soon, says Rob Wallace, ...

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” will be without Senator Mike Lee’s controversial public land sale provision… and that’s a win for the American people.

A mandate to sell somewhere between 2 and 3 million acres across the western U.S. was first struck down by the Senate ...