Rather than any sort of real hard look at the federal budget, one done so that actual fraud, waste, and abuse is rooted out in order to balance the budget—DOGE absolutely doesn't count—the current makeup of the House, Senate, and Presidency wants to sell your public lands. I mean, how else are they going to come up with the cash they just gave back to millionaires and billionaires through tax cuts?
The House has been hard at work—LOL—trying to put together a new budget that works to "balance the budget" since President Trump was sworn in earlier this year. Many things have been proposed, including selling off your public lands to pay for incoming tax cuts and further spending. It's also why they went on a mass firing spree across the entirety of the federal government. But in recent weeks, after strong opposition by both Democratic and Republican lawmakers, and backed by a growing vocal constituency of outdoor recreators, the sale of public lands was thought to be off the table.
That is, until yesterday, when, under the cloak of secrecy and in the middle of the night, the House Natural Resources Committee approved a budget that would sell off 11,000 acres of land across Nevada and Utah.
