GOP Sen. Mike Lee's plan to allow the sale of public lands ran into bipartisan opposition in the Senate and the House.

After public outcry and a decision by the Senate Parliamentarian that this sell-off didn't conform with critical policy rules, Lee scaled the provision back to 1.2 million acres of mandated land sales. The latest version targeted high-value BLM lands near vaguely defined “population centers.”

U.S. Sen. Mike Lee says he's pulled his controversial proposal to sell federal public lands to state and private buyers from congressional Republicans’ “Big Beautiful Bill.”