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SF Gate reported

A contentious proposal from a Republican senator from Utah to sell millions of acres of public land across the West was scrapped from the “One Big, Beautiful Bill” Monday night, but the lawmaker has made a last-ditch attempt to rally support.

Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled Monday that the plan from Sen. Mike Lee to impose a mandatory sale of up to 3 million acres of Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service land, including large swaths of California, would not make it into the Republican-led megabill.

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