Public lands betrayal: We will not forget or forgive
Montanans cherish our wide-open spaces because they are the backbone of our economy, the spectacular beauty that makes Montana special, and the shared birthright of every American.
So when Sen. Steve Daines quietly collaborated with Sen. Mike Lee of Utah to slip an amendment into the so-called “big beautiful bill” that would have forced the sale of as many as 3 million acres of public land and opened approximately 250 million more to auction, they weren’t proposing “budget savings.”
They were engineering the largest transfer of wealth from taxpayers to wealthy private interests in American history.
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