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Senator Mike Lee had ambitious plans to sell huge swaths of public lands, a long-sought goal for the Utah Republican. In the end, he walked away empty-handed and alone. The chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee made the public lands sales one of his signature issues in the struggle to pass what became the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

But multiple snags proved to be insurmountable, either because of backlash from fellow Republicans or roadblocks from the Senate parliamentarian. According to interviews with those involved in the fight, Lee badly miscalculated Republican support for the land sale proposal and failed to do the groundwork to get skeptics on board.

“There was virtually nobody else who supported it,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who said his office’s phone lines were ringing off the hook over the idea, despite North Carolina not being impacted. The ferocious campaign against the land sales improbably united both conservationists and the MAGA right. Key House and Senate Republicans vowed to blow up the entire bill if the sales were included.


 
Remember when the Secretary of Defense, the Director of National Intelligence, the Director of the FBI and the Vice President all used an non-secure messaging platform to discuss top secret war plans and they invited a journalist to the chat.

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my most unmemorable moment of 2025 was yesterday. i can't remember shit and i am morbidly hungover.
 

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