Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee Sen. Sen. Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill dropped from the draft proposal after unelected Senate officials opposed its inclusion.
Senator Elizabeth MacDonough Domination Lee’s first proposal to create millions of acres of federal land in 11 states eligible for sale Monday violates the budget adjustment process that underpins the president’s swept tax and immigration-centric bill. Lee told the Daily Callenner News Foundation that he was not a scoundrel and that a spokesman for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee had the revised proposals submitted to Congress for review. (No, Yellowstone is not for sale, says the public land bill that the senator has been charged.)
“Looking” Lee I wrote it On X’s Monday evening regarding his improved proposal, the amount of federal land could be significantly reduced. “We’re just starting out.”
Lee has begun working on changing his public land proposal to bring hunting and conservation groups on board before Congress opposed his first bill, a spokesperson for the Registration Committee told DCNF.
Home prices crush families and keep young Americans out of their homes where they grew up. You need to change that.
Thanks to the Americans, this is what I’m trying to do.
1. Remove all forest department land. We don’t sell forests.
2. It will decrease significantly…
– Mike Lee (@senmikelee) June 24, 2025
McDonough was the appointee of Harry Reid, the late former Democratic Senate Majority Leader, and formerly advice Then President Al Gore on Senate proceedings at the time was when Gore ruled the count of election votes that proved his defeat against George W. Bush in 2000.
McDonough is expected to play a major role in shaping the President’s budget bill, taking into account the responsibility of determining which provisions comply with the Senate Bird Rules. The budget adjustment process has strict restrictions that require provisions to directly affect spending, revenue, or debt restrictions to pass the law by a simple majority vote.
The proposal that MacDonough’s rules violate the Byrd rule would be subject to a 60-vote threshold and would have to pass the upper chamber in another law, along with a buy-in from Senate Democrats.
McDonough’s deliberations are part of an opaque process commonly referred to as “bird buses,” during which Senate Democrats are trying to challenge many provisions in Senate proposals they oppose. Congress has excluded 32 provisions so far from its Senate plan, including a proposal to sell Lee’s public land.
The Utah Republican proposal would have encouraged the disposal of just 1% of federal land owned by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Forest Service. The provision would have exempted untouched land, particularly in national parks and wilderness, and would have targeted acres without existing permits or federal protections for housing and community development.
His proposed changes include removing the sale of Forest Service land and significantly reducing the amount of BLM land eligible for sale in the bill.
Utah Republicans will restrict the disposal of BLM land within five miles of the population center.
Environmental, conservation and hunting groups, including parts on the right, were heavily opposed Lee’s proposal to promote sales of millions of acres of federal land to public and private bidders. The Utah Republican consistently defended the merits of his proposal, claiming that the targeted land had little recreational or conservation value and would help address the housing shortage in the Western states.
Among potential signs of lack of popularity of the clause, Senate Democrats specifically welcomed the proposal for public land that would fall out of Senate plans, despite the Monday evening excluding various energy and natural resource-related provisions.
“Democrats don’t stand vaguely while trying to avoid settlement rules to sell public land to fund billionaires’ tax credits.” I said In a statement. The tax portion of the Senate plan will forever extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts, lower the federal income tax for Americans across the country, and protect certain Americans from taxation on designated wages and overtime salaries in the short term.
McDonough also on Monday tightened provisions that remove Biden-era rules to accelerate approvals for offshore oil and gas projects, reduce fees for solar and wind projects on BLM land, and cut to the Department of Home Affairs to allow construction of Ambler Road in Alaska.
The unfavourable ruling in Congress is a blow to the Senate Republican legislative ambitions in drafting the president’s budget bill. Senate majority leader John Toon is consistent I’ve excluded He rejected lawmakers, removed the Senate legislative filibuster and called for most legislation to win 60 votes.
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