America’s public lands have created our nation’s legacy. They forge brighter futures. They ensure clean air and water. And they are among America’s greatest ideas.

But the places where we hike, fish, hunt, and recreate are in danger.

The United States Senate is attempting to sell about 3 million acres of public land to be used for housing development through an addition to the spending bill. This small provision to the “Big, Beautiful Bill” would put land in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming at risk without so much as a full and fair debate by members of both sides of the political aisle. Though this legislation does prevent the sale of a few types of federally protected land, like National Parks, it does not exempt public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management nor the United States Forest Service — which makes up some of the most beautiful and ecologically-sensitive places in our country.

.@BasedMikeLee is secretly trying to sell 3 MILLION acres of America’s public land for development.

And it includes some of my favorite places, specifically ones in the pictures below.

Americans across the political spectrum are **overwhelmingly** against the sale of our beauty pic.twitter.com/JylX7ypBjs

— Benji Backer (@BenjiBacker) June 16, 2025

The irony is, the addition of this provision by a Republican-led Senate goes entirely against the conservative legacy of conservation. President Trump made a promise to revive this legacy, and he kept that promise during his first term with the 

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