Friend — A last-minute provision snuck into Republicans’ anti-environmental billionaire tax scam would sell off nearly half a million acres of public lands in Utah and Nevada.
Public lands should stay in public hands. That’s why this provision — slipped into legislation at a midnight session of the House Natural Resources Committee — is even drawing opposition from a number of Republicans in Congress.
Republicans are facing razor-thin margins in the House and Senate — and members in Western states are feeling the pressure from constituents who oppose selling off public lands. If we can flip just a few votes, they won’t have the majority needed to pass Trump’s bill with these land sales attached to it.
There’s still time to strip this massive land giveaway from the final legislation before it reaches a vote, but we need your help: Our experts are on Capitol Hill right now, putting pressure on Congress to keep public lands in public hands. Can you help, Friend?
This proposed land sell-off is already drawing outrage from officials in Western states. Even Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke — Trump’s former Interior Secretary — has said that this is a red line for him. “I strongly don’t believe [land sales] should be in the reconciliation bill.”
We can’t afford to miss this chance to rally everyone in support of public lands — which belong to ALL of us.
We’re in Congress each day organizing and resisting attempts to sell off public lands, and now we’re fighting yet another anti-environmental billionaire tax scam. Can you help power our campaign?
