Since They Care So Much About Affordable Housing, Senate GQP Plan Would Require Sale Of 3.3 Million Acres Of BLM Land

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Senate Republicans have proposed selling off up to 3.3 million acres of federally owned land in 11 Western states, according to a draft legislative text offered as part of their spending and tax cut bill, prompting an outcry from conservationists and Democratic lawmakers. According to a budget blueprint released Wednesday evening by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the federal government would be required to sell off between 2.2 and 3.3 million acres of land owned by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service over the next five years.

The proposal stipulates that the sold land will have to be used to develop housing or “community development needs,” which it said could be defined by the secretaries of the Interior or Agriculture departments. The 11 states that would be affected by the proposal are Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said in a statement Wednesday that the draft legislative text would turn “federal liabilities into taxpayer value, while making housing more affordable for hardworking American families.”

Current law allows BLM to sell off land in some instances, such as in a specific ring around Las Vegas, at a discount if it’s developed for affordable housing. But the push to scale up these land sales has spurred pushback from not just Democratic lawmakers and environmentalists but also some House Republicans, who managed to block a similar provision from being included last month in the House’s tax and spending bill.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/06/12/public-land-sales-proposal-senate-republicans-western-us/

[Walleye]

1. This is what I expect from the real estate scammer in chief

Who really trusts real estate developers for crying out loud. That’s what Trump pretends to be

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Yeah, build cheap apartments on land that's many miles away from any town so people can't get to work.

Then claim that nobody wants to work.

[Walleye]

3. One thing with Trump, you can always count on his poor taste

[Coolgoober]

4. Give Them An Inch, They Will Take A Mile

Those areas belong to all of us. That's part of our public lands. With the the FRAUDSTER In Trump it will be a get RICHer scheme for trump and all his humpers. KEEP OUT!