Newhouse says he won't vote for GOP mega-bill if it calls for public land sales

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Washington U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse says he won’t back the sweeping tax cut and spending bill his fellow Republicans are trying to push through Congress if it includes controversial provisions to sell off federal public land.

Newhouse and four other Republicans in the U.S. House stated their opposition to the potential land sales in a Thursday letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson.

“If a provision to sell public lands is in the bill that reaches the House floor, we will be forced to vote no,” says the letter, which was also signed by Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Oregon, and Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif.

Republicans hold a narrow 220-212 majority in the House, and their “One Big Beautiful Bill” squeaked through that chamber by just a single vote in May.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/06/27/was-newhouse-says-he-wont-vote-for-gop-mega-bill-if-it-calls-for-public-land-sales/

[Irish_Dem]

1. They're all such pathological liars.

They could not tell the truth if their lives depended upon it.

[jmowreader]

2. Strangely enough, I can believe that

Selling off the public lands in the West screws two huge constituencies in Idaho, Montana and the three coastal states: hunters and the tourism industry.

I once saw a map for North Carolina hunters that showed all the public lands available for hunting without having to pay landowners. It looked like a handful of tiny green dots randomly scattered over the state.

As for tourism, our public lands are the main draw here when there’s no snow on the ground.