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Lee pulls federal land sales from megabill
By Josh Siegel
A Public Lands Sell-Off Is Struck From the G.O.P. Policy Bill
By Maxine Joselow
Mike Lee preemptively drops 'big beautiful bill' provision to sell federal lands that riled GOP colleagues
By Emma Colton
GOP plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands is found to violate Senate rules
By Matthew Daly
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Plan to sell off public land in the West nixed from ‘big, beautiful bill’ amid GOP backlash
By Lila Seidman
Public land sales gone from GOP’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
By Caitlyn "Lynn" Kim
Protestors rally against possible BLM land sale
By Elizabeth Sanchez
Huge Public Land Sale Stripped from Senate Bill—For Now—But Assault on Federal Land Protections Continues
By Wyatt Myskow
A conservative’s plan to sell public lands faces MAGA pushback
By Maxine Joselow
Western public land sale axed from Senate budget bill
By Angus Thuermer & Angus M. Thuermer, Jr.
Sen. Mike Lee withdraws public lands provision from Big, Beautiful Bill
By Lindsay Aerts & Abigail Jones
Washington Senator Maria Cantwell supports removal of public land sales proposal from GOP budget bill
By Tori Luecking
Utah Senator withdraws land sales provision, Idaho lawmakers respond
By Tracy Bringhurst
Daines, Zinke Speak Out Against Public Land Sale in 'Big Beautiful Bill' Ahead of Senate Vote
By Mariah Thomas
Oregon’s only congressional Republican joins chorus against federal land sales
By Courtney Sherwood
"Bow Hunters, Bunny Huggers" and Mountain Bikers Unite to Defeat Public Land Sell-Off Bill
By Steve Larese
Trump's federal land sell-off proposal includes 5M acres in Washington
By Sebastian Robertson
Senate referee rules out public land sales in megabill
By Garrett Downs & Jonathan Miller
Senate rulekeeper blocks public lands sales — including in Colorado — from Republican budget bill
By Elise Schmelzer
Map: All 250 million acres of public land the Trump budget bill would sell off
By Kristin Toussaint
Republican plan to sell millions of acres of federal lands found to violate Senate rules
By Matthew Daly
Mike Lee drops national forests from proposed public land sale, makes several other changes
By Kyle Dunphey
Mike Lee explains his decision to downsize public lands sell-off plan amid backlash, Senate rules setback
By Leia Larsen