'Not going to pass': Another MAGA senator turns on megabill over GOP provision [View all]

Source: Raw Story

June 23, 2025 6:37PM ET


A prominent pro-Trump senator is coming out against one of the more controversial provisions proposed for President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill."

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) told Punchbowl News congressional reporter Max Cohen that the plan by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) to sell off portions of federally-owned land to build housing is a dead letter as far as he is concerned.

“I oppose it. The way it’s written right now, it’s not going to pass," he said. Lee tried to win over Daines's vote by exempting Montana from the sale of public lands, but to no avail.

Public land is an issue that starkly divides the east and west of the United States. In many western states, an outright majority of land is owned by the federal government through various agencies, as a result of the unique way in which this area was settled during westward expansion. It's a commonly debated issue, with many westerners supporting the system as preserving free movement and natural beauty, and others seeing it as a federal intrusion on their way of life.

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