Sen. Lee's announcement on Monday, June 23, 2025, removed all US Forest Service land from the bill's mandatory public land sale provision. His initial revision also promised to significantly reduce ...

Utah Sen. Mike Lee withdraws public lands sale provision from the "big beautiful bill" after facing opposition from Republican colleagues ahead of July 4th deadline.

The Senate’s death blow to Lee’s bill removes pressure on the House of Representatives to kill the language. The House had been considered the “backwall” in efforts to make sure the land-sale ...

Sen. Mike Lee announced changes to his controversial public lands sale provision in the "big beautiful" budget bill, that U.S. Forest Service Lands would no longer be included, and that Bureau of ...

Before Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough advised that Lee’s bill would not pass the Byrd Rule, the Senator from Utah had announced on X that he would be revising his plan. He posted the ...

On Thursday, Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R) defended reintroducing a provision to sell public lands in the "big beautiful" budget bill, saying changes to the provisions were on the way.