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Is there a sinister GOP plan to destroy Yellowstone and our national parks?
The "one big, beautiful bill” received a draft proposal last week from the Republican Utah Senator Mike Lee-led Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which would mandate the sale of between 2.2 million and 3.3 million acres of public land owned by the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service in the American West.
While Lee has framed the proposal as a means to increase affordable housing, critics claim it would do little to aid in the housing crisis and instead would just bar the public from beautiful land they now still can enjoy.
Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck doesn’t share their critique.
“What we mean by ‘affordable housing’ is if you take a look at the percentage of land that is owned in some of these states, you can’t live in a house in some of these states, close to anything, for less than a million dollars. Because there’s no land,” Glenn explains on “The Glenn Beck Program.”
“Can we just look at the perspective here? The federal government owns 640 million acres. That is nearly 28% of all land in America. How much land do we have? Well, that’s about the size of France, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom combined,” he continues.
“They own and hold pristine land that is more than the size of those countries combined, and most of that is west of the Mississippi, where the federal control smothers the states, shuts down opportunity, and turns local citizens into tenants of the federal estate,” he adds.
With less land available for citizens, there are higher prices and less state taxes paid on land.
“We’re not talking about selling Yellowstone or paving over Yosemite or anything like that. We’re talking about less than one-half of one percent of federal land that is remote, hard to access, or mismanaged,” Glenn says.
“This is really important,” he continues. “The federal government is, what, $35 trillion in debt, or are we $45 trillion now? I’m not sure. Our entitlement programs are all strained, infrastructure crumbling, and yet we’re still clinging to millions of acres of land that the federal government can’t maintain.”
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Why It’s Hard To Make Sense Of The ‘Mishmash’ In Republicans’ ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’
Even if the bill passes and gets signed into law, the policy muddle inside it will prove difficult to explain and defend.WATCH: Ron DeSantis roasts GOP for refusing DOGE cuts: ‘The swamp has won’
President Trump’s "big, beautiful bill" was packaged as a brilliant plan to save money by slashing federal spending and reducing the size of government. The Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, pushed hard to include big spending cuts it claimed could save a whopping $175 billion.
In the end, however, Congress rejected the DOGE’s proposed permanent cuts. The bill that passed on May 22 temporarily pauses some funding but mostly just reallocates funds to priorities like tax cuts, military, and border security, prompting Musk and the Americans who hoped for a smaller federal government to express frustration. Once again, the plan to shrink the government failed.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) made his disappointment well known. On May 27 at a press conference, he ripped into congressional Republicans for failing to codify the DOGE cuts, suggesting they betrayed voters.
Pat Gray plays the clip of DeSantis’ scathing comments.
“Elon Musk went into this DOGE effort. He was getting lampooned, I mean like they're firebombing his Tesla dealerships; media is smearing him relentlessly; his businesses suffered — all this stuff because he basically said, ‘Look, we can't keep doing this, and we need to moderate and reduce the amount of money that the federal government is spending,”’ he said.
He argued that Congress’ failure to make a single DOGE cut is evidence that “we need a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution” and “term limits for members of Congress.”
“DOGE and Elon were on a collision course with the swamp. ... I don't think there's any question that DOGE fought the swamp, and so far, the swamp has won,” he added.
Pat agrees — “Elon Musk took a blood bath over DOGE,” and yet for all of his efforts, “none of it was codified into law.”
“Not only that, but the man donated $250 million” to support Donald Trump and Republican candidates in the 2024 election cycle, adds co-host Keith Malinak.
Pat says he doesn’t blame Elon for being upset with Republicans, as he himself has long been angered with their spending habits. “This is why we talk about Republicans the way we do because they do this every time ... and we knew they were going to do it again, and they did!” he condemns. “I don't claim the Republicans because they're just the party of being let down over and over and over again.”
“As far as fiscal conservatism, there's almost no such thing anymore.”
To hear Gov. DeSantis’ comments and more of the “Unleashed” panel’s analysis, watch the episode above.
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