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Mike Lee preemptively drops 'big beautiful bill' provision to sell federal lands that riled GOP colleagues
By Emma Colton
A Public Lands Sell-Off Is Struck From the G.O.P. Policy Bill
By Maxine Joselow
Lee pulls federal land sales from megabill
By Josh Siegel
Article | 5 House Republicans declare red line on megabill land sales
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Plan to sell off public land in the West nixed from ‘big, beautiful bill’ amid GOP backlash
By Lila Seidman
Protestors rally against possible BLM land sale
By Elizabeth Sanchez
Utahns ‘left, right and middle’ stall public land sell-off, in this week’s Inside Voices
By Sara Weber
Huge Public Land Sale Stripped from Senate Bill—For Now—But Assault on Federal Land Protections Continues
By Wyatt Myskow
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
GOP plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands is found to violate Senate rules
By Matthew Daly
Mike Lee Tries to Sneak Public Land Sale Back Into 'Big, Ugly Bill' Ahead of Senate Vote
By Jessica Corbett
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
OPINION: As public pushes back on behalf of public lands, Trump’s sell-off plan fractures
By John L. Smith
Trump's federal land sell-off proposal includes 5M acres in Washington
By Sebastian Robertson
Smith: As Congress debates budget bill, it's time to voice support for public lands and federal agencies
By Paul A. Smith
Mike Lee's Land Grab Dies in the Senate
By Travis Hall
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
Republican plan to sell millions of acres of federal lands found to violate Senate rules
By Matthew Daly
Mike Lee explains his decision to downsize public lands sell-off plan amid backlash, Senate rules setback
By Leia Larsen