"Some Republicans are opposing the sale of lands in Nevada and Utah in the budget reconciliation package."
"A last-minute add to the Republican tax, energy and national security megabill mandating the sale of public lands threatens to fracture GOP support for the sweeping measure, presenting Speaker Mike Johnson a new hurdle as he races to assuage his party on multiple fronts.
The public lands sale provision, 33 pages in all, was added to the House Natural Resources Committee’s piece of the legislation early Wednesday as an amendment from Rep. Mark Amodei (R-Nev.). It would put public lands up for sale in both Nevada and Utah.
While Republicans had suggested the sales would amount to a few thousand acres, advocates and Democrats have said that in analyzing the amendment it could be 500,000 acres in total — or more.
A spokesperson for the Natural Resources Committee said they did not have exact figures. An Amodei spokesperson explained, after this story originally published, that the amendment involved 449,174 acres but that actions involving 356,100 acres would not amount to a net change in federal ownership."
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