The GOP Has Found A New Reason To Pawn Off America’s Public Lands
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Trump has endorsed a new party platform that tries to make a wildly unpopular idea more digestible to voters.
Anti-federal land zealots across the country must be licking their chops.
The new Republican Party platform, adopted this week in advance of the next week’s nominating convention in Milwaukee, mentions federal lands only once — and rather than a vague call to protect them, it proposes pawning some of them off to address housing affordability.
Republicans will “open limited portions of Federal Lands to allow for new home construction” in order to “help new home buyers,” the platform states. Former President Donald Trump has endorsed the 16-page document.
In its first term, the Trump administration repeatedly cast itself as an opponent of federal land disposal, only to cozy up to leaders of the pro-land transfer movement and, on several occasions, propose public land sell-offs.
“We’re not looking to sell off land,” Trump said in a 2016 interview. At the time, the GOP platform explicitly called for transferring control of federal lands to states.
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