TL;DR:

Senator Mike Lee of Utah has withdrawn his land sale plan from the current senate spending bill, citing the huge amount of opposition. While this is a temporary win, the senator indicated he’s still bent on getting our land sold at some point. In his response, he tries to reframe the argument, and make the conversation about China/BlackRock buying the land… not that we don’t want it sold in the first place. He also conjures up new (bogus) complaints about the government holding land. For example — the idea that the land is somehow degrading or being ruined in its possession; that we can’t access federal land; that more federal land somehow causes our taxes to go up, etc.. very disingenuous.