The Utah Lee senator withdraws the public provision for the sale of GOP tax invoice

Utah republican senator, Mike Lee, has prevented a provision of the only major law on the bill on Saturday evening which would have allowed the sale of federal land for development after general indignation among his conservative colleagues.

“In the past few weeks, I spent a lot of time listening to members of the community, local leaders and stakeholders across the country. Although there has been enormous disinformation – and in some cases, pure and simple lies – about my bill, many people have raised sincere concerns,” Lee said in a message published on his account on Saturday evening.

Lee, who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said he had withdrawn after failing to obtain “guarantees to guarantee that these land would only be sold to American families” and not to China or companies. The Senate parliamentarian judged on Monday that the original language of the provision did not correspond to the strict rules linked to what could be included in the legislation on reconciliation, Lee’s office by rendering the arrangement with a new language before shooting it completely on Saturday evening.

Lee said that it maintains its long -standing position that the American government has too many land that are often poorly managed and leave the Americans, especially in Western states, with higher tax charges.

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“I continue to believe that the federal government has far too many lands – the land is bad and ruined in many cases for the next generation,” Lee wrote in his article. “Under the Democratic presidents, massive expanses of the West are locked up people who live there, without significant recourse.”

Lee had included a mandate for the sale of millions of federal land acres in a project to provision for the tax reduction package earlier this month. He preventively pulled the provision on Saturday before a procedural vote, as a handful of republican legislators in the two chambers, publicly denounced the provision and said they would vote against the bill if it was included.

“We have the votes to face it,” Steve Daines said on Thursday, about Lee’s disposition. “We are ready.”

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“I agree with my colleagues that the federal government has poorly managed federal lands for decades. But I do not agree with their solution. The solution is not to sell public land. The solution is better management. Let us send legislation to Potus Bureau to improve management and access. I remain a no the last weekend of lee tiled”, the representative of Montana. Zinke was president Donald TrumpSecretary of the Interior Department during his first administration.

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“The inhabitants of Idaho have been clear – we do not support the sale of our public lands to the most offender. I am proud to help direct the effort to withdraw this provision of Big Beautiful’s only big bill,” said the republican senator of Idaho, Jim Risch, after Lee said he was drawing the provision.

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The legislators are on the deadline tightly July 4 to obtain the legislation, which will advance the Trump agenda on taxes, immigration, energy, defense and national debt, at the office of the president. The Senate Republicans succeeded in the legislation on a procedural obstacle late Saturday after the hours of negotiations.

Alex Miller and Elizabeth Elkind from Fox News Digital contributed to this report.